RE: [Corpora-List] help with WS concordance search by syntax

From: Smith, Nicholas (smithni@exchange.lancs.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2006 - 16:16:52 MET DST

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    Hi Linda
    It will soon be possible also to use the new version of BNCweb with CQP,
    searching for:

    _NP0 _NP0 of _NP0

    See Stefan Evert and Sebastian Hoffmann's ICAME 2006 talk, at
    http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/varieng/icame/programme/Demos.pdf, for more
    info.

    Nick Smith,
    Lancaster.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On
    Behalf Of Lou's Laptop
    Sent: 16 June 2006 14:45
    To: Mark Davies
    Cc: Linda Bawcom; corpora@uib.no
    Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] help with WS concordance search by syntax

    The query can also be solved very easily using the Xaira querybuilder,
    of course -- but I'm sorry to say that the Xaira-indexed full BNC is
    still only available for inhouse testing...

    Lou

    Mark Davies wrote:
    > Hi Linda,
    >
    > You may need to use WordSmith, but in case you can consider another
    option, there are at least three possibilities:
    >
    > 1) Use Bill Fletcher's Phrase in English site (pie.usna.edu) and
    search for << np0 np0 of np0 >> . It's fast and you can link to KWIC
    entries, but it will only display those that occur three times or more
    in the BNC (173 / 4211 types, or about 4% of all types)
    >
    > 2) Use the VIEW interface to the BNC (http://view.byu.edu) and search
    for << [np0] of [np0] >> and then click on the entries that look like
    they might have another [np0] before the first [np0]. Queries with four
    sequential high frequency "words" are disallowed via the interface, for
    reasons of server load. Sorry.
    >
    > 3) I just ran the query directly against the BNC/VIEW database (server
    load doesn't matter if it's me doing the query :-), and found all cases
    of [np0] [np0] of [np0]. I've placed a file with all matching strings
    at: http://view.byu.edu/download/np0_np0_of_np0.txt.
    >



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