An Introduction to the British National Corpus - XML Edition
The British National Corpus (BNC) has been a major influence on the construction of language corpora during the last twenty years, if only as a significant reference point. This corpus, dating from the 1990s, may be seen as the culmination of a research tradition going back to the one-million word Brown corpus of 1964, but its constitution and its industrial-scale production techniques anticipate the world we now live in, in which language-focussed engineering and software development are at the heart of the information society instead of lurking on its academic fringes. This paper1 reviews the design of the BNC and discuss some of the decisions taken during its construction. I will also discuss why its most recent incarnation, revised to use XML, remains relevant today.
Lou Burnard
Computing Services Oxford University
国际会议
2009 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching(2009应用语言学暨语言教学国际研讨会)
台湾
英文
1-19
2009-04-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）