[Corpora-List] Announcement: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) Update

From: Dr Wendy Anderson (W.Anderson@englang.arts.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 14:12:38 MET DST

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    The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) Project is delighted to
    announce an update to our online corpus, at www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk, on 20
    May 2005. This update offers a greater number and range of texts, and
    improved functionality for corpus research.

    The latest version of the Corpus now includes 515 texts (a total of nearly
    750,000 words), in a range of genres, including informal correspondence,
    prose fiction and non-fiction, poetry, religious texts. A number of new
    transcriptions of spoken texts (conversations and interviews) are also
    available, with accompanying audio/video files. Spoken language makes up
    just over 20% of the corpus.

    Other improved features of this latest update include:

    * wildcard word/phrase searching
    * improved results list, with flexible ordering
    * improved navigation between word/phrase occurrences
    * improved synchronisation of multimedia files with orthographic
    transcriptions
    * a basic key word in context display (we hope to provide a full concordance
    facility in the next update)

    We encourage users to give us feedback on the SCOTS resource through our
    webform.

    with kind regards,

    The SCOTS team
    www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk

    The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech at the University of Glasgow is
    funded by an AHRC Grant.
    ....................................
    Dr Wendy J. Anderson
    Research Assistant
    Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
    Department of English Language
    University of Glasgow
    12 University Gardens
    Glasgow
    G12 8QQ
    Scotland, UK

    Website: http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk



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