This free event will introduce the Written British National Corpus 2014 and offer a series of mini lectures from leading experts in Corpus linguistics.
The British National Corpus 2014 (BNC2014) is a major project led by Lancaster University. We created a 100-million-word corpus (a large collection of ‘real life’ language) of present-day British English. This corpus can be used by researchers to understand more about how language works and how it is evolving. Educators, dictionary compilers and the interested public will also be able to access the corpus to find usage examples of modern British English in different genres.
The Spoken part of the corpus (10 million words) has already been released. We will be officially releasing the written part of the corpus (90 million words) on 19th November via #LancsBox X, a software package developed at Lancaster University. This will complete the BNC2014 project.
Programme
| 12.00-12.30 | Online programme: Lancaster Corpus Linguistics |
| 12.30 – 12.45 | Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster University): Welcome and Introduction to the event |
| 12.45 – 12.50 | Elena Semino (Lancaster University): Welcome from the Director of The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) |
| 12.50 – 12.55 | Paul Connolly (Lancaster University): Welcome from the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| 12.55-13.00 | Break |
| 13.00 – 13.15 | Tony McEnery (Lancaster University): The idea of the written BNC2014 |
| 13.15 – 13.30 | Dawn Knight (Cardiff University): Building a National Corpus: The story of the National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh |
| 13.30 – 13.45 | Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster University): Current British English |
| 13.45 – 14.00 | Vaclav Brezina and William Platt (Lancaster University): Exploring the BNC2014 using #LancsBox X |
| 14.00 – 14.15 | Randi Reppen (Northern Arizona University): Corpora in the classroom |
| 14.15 – 14.30 | Alice Deignan (University of Leeds): Corpora in education |
| 14.30-14.45 | Dana Gablasova (Lancaster University): Corpus for schools |
| 14.45 – 15.00 | Bas Aarts (University College London): Plonker of a politician NPs |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Break |
| 15.15-15.30 | Marc Alexander (University of Glasgow): British English: A historical perspective |
| 15.30 -15.45 | Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham): Corpora and fiction |
| 15.45 – 16.00 | Martin Wynne (University of Oxford): CLARIN – corpora, corpus tools and collaboration |