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British National Corpus

Known as: BNC, BNC Baby 
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100-million-word text corpus of samples of written and spoken English from a wide range of sources. The corpus… 
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2018
2018
Spoken British National Corpus 2014
The British National Corpus 2014 is a large collection of samples of contemporary British English language use, gathered from a… 
2015
2015
Is corpus word frequency a good yardstick for selecting words to teach? Threshold levels for vocabulary selection
2012
2012
The investigation of collocational errors in university students’ writing majoring in English
2011
2011
Creating a Dual-Purpose Treebank
We describe the background for and building of IcePaHC, a one million word parsed historical corpus of Icelandic which has just… 
2007
2007
C-Structures and F-Structures for the British National Corpus
We describe how the British National Corpus (BNC), a one hundred million word balanced corpus of British English, was parsed into… 
2002
2002
The Use of Syntax in Word Completion Utilities
1998
1998
An American national corpus: a proposal
This paper proposes the development of an American National Corpus comparable to the British National Corpus. Corpus-analytic… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Standardisation Efforts on the Level of Dialogue Act in the MATE Project
This paper describes the state of the art of coding schemes for dialogue acts and the efforts to establish a standard in this… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
IT capability in primary initial teacher training
All courses in initial Primary teacher training are now required, through the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education… 
1985
1985
Word frequency and text type: Some observations based on the LOB corpus of British English texts
The study of word frequencies and the printing of word frequency lists started before the advent of the computer (e.g., Thorndike… 
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