[Corpora-List] Updated resource: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech

From: Dr Wendy Anderson (W.Anderson@englang.arts.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2006 - 16:47:20 MET DST

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    Dear all,

    The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) Project is delighted to announce an update to our corpus, freely available online at www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk, on 27 September 2006.

    The latest version of the Corpus now includes over 1000 texts in Scottish English and varieties of Scots, and a total of over 3.5 million words. Genres include informal correspondence, prose fiction and non-fiction, poetry, religious texts and administrative/political texts. A number of new spoken texts (conversations and interviews) are also now available, presented as audio/video files with synchronised orthographic transcriptions. These include some transcribed recordings from last summer's BBC Voices project (http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/). Click here for an example text: http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/search/document.php?documentid=1430

    An Advanced Search System fully exploits SCOTS' extensive sociolinguistic metadata by allowing the user to build up a search profile
    specifying sociolinguistic or textual criteria. Results can be displayed as a re-orderable concordance, or on an interactive map: http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/search/document.php?documentid=1430

    We encourage users to give us feedback on the SCOTS resource, including desired enhancements to the facilities and texts available, through our web-form or by email.

    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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