Online access to the BNC and other corpora + links to corpus-related resources
Access to the BNC
- BNC Simple Search
- A free search tool on the BNC website. Useful for quick queries where frequency information is useful and where 50 hits is enough to explore.
- BNC at Brigham Young Univ by Mark Davies
- A free interface to the BNC. Search for words/phrases, restrict by text category and word-class and choose different search result display options. Quick and powerful.
- Just the Word
- Free, simple application that shows combinations with and offers alternatives to the words or phrases entered.
- Phrases in English by W. H. Fletcher in consultation with M. Stubbs
- Free tool that identifies phrases. Search for n-grams consisting of up to eight words or part-of-speech tags.
- BNC World w SARA - trial account (registration and download needed)
- 30-day free trial account to the BNC World server. Users need to register and install the SARA client.
- BNCweb (restricted access), developed at Univ of Zurich
- A comprehensive interface to the corpus developed in Zurich. Once it has been installed on an institutional server, registered users can access it via a web browser.
- Shogakukan Corpus Network (subscription only)
- Japanese interface to the BNC (in Japanese)
Other online corpora (small selection, see links below for more resources)
- Collins WordbanksOnline (Bank of English Sampler)
- Simple free interface for searching part of Bank of English (56 million words). Restrict search by type of text, retrive collocations.
- Corpus del Espanol by Mark Davies
- Free access to large Spanish corpus (100 million words) containing material from 1200s to 1900s.
- MICASE Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
- Free access to transcripts of over 1.8 million words of spoken data. Search online or download.
- OPUS an open source parallel corpus
- Texts in many languages, aligned with a kind of multi-lingual search interface.
- Corpora in Oxford (resticted access)
- Corpora available via Oxford libraries' platform (under 'Subject List' -> 'Linguistics' -> 'Corpora')
Other resources and links
- Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists by David Lee
- A comprehensive and useful list of corpora, tools, and other resources
- Corpora4Learning.net by Sabine Braun
- "Links and references for the use of corpora, corpus linguistics and corpus analysis in the context of language learning and teaching"
- PALA Corpus Stylistics SIG
- Information for those interested in corpus stylistics
- Developing Linguistic Corpora: a guide to good practice
- Free guide to advice on corpus creation
- Corpus Linguistics (McEnery and Wilson)
- Website to accompany the book.
- Oxford English Corpus
- The worlds' largest corpus? (2 billion words). Information about it and examples of how it is used.
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