Re: [Corpora-List] Questions about collocations and collocation extraction tools

From: Martin Wynne (martin.wynne@oucs.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2006 - 11:59:44 MET DST

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    > Althought the BNC Baby does'nt claim to be representative of the whole
    > BNC, it may suffer of the same typological 'text types' bias analyzed by
    > David Lee in his PhD dissertation. The article http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num3/lee/default.html
    > should give you an idea of the way he analyzes the metadata of the BNC
    > texts to discuss genre, register, text type, domain and style representativity
    > of the BNC. He designed the "BNC Index" to reclassify all the BNC texts
    > with a didactic perspective.

    If anyone is interested in how the texts in BNC Baby were actually
    selected, then please take a look at:

    http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/corpus/baby/

    It is clear from this that the text selections were based on David Lee's
    text classifications, where these were relevant.

    Please also note that David Lee's classifications are included in the
    metadata in current and proposed future releases of the BNC.

    Martin 

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