[Corpora-List] problems with BNC and Sara

From: Suzanne Hempel (hempel@lige.ucl.ac.be)
Date: Tue Apr 05 2005 - 11:33:04 MET DST

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    Hello everyone,

    I would like to solicit your help concerning the BNC and especially the
    software designed for it, SARA-32.

    I have purchased the BNC World Edition on CD-Rom, and (after quite a lot of
    installation problems) have installed it successfully on my PC.
    I then tried to design a subcorpora for my research. This was described as
    quite easy by the creators of the BNC, however, I encountered several
    problems. I downloaded the indexer in order to be able to register my
    defined subcorpus, and it seemed to work OK; but whenever the program was
    registering the subcorpus, a message ("lemma scheme null" occured and the
    program was closed automatically. Unnecessary to say that there was no
    trace of my subcorpus anywhere...

    I would like to know whether you have encountered the same problems, and,
    if you've got a solution, whether you could let me know as fast as
    possible. My research depends on this corpus feature, and I've already
    spent several days trying to understand the cryptic BNC+SARA manual(s!) and
    BNC answers to my questions...

      Thank you very much in advance,

    best wishes,

    Susanne HEMPEL
    Université Catholique de Louvain

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