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BNC Document Register

Documents are classified primarily by the part of the project responsible for them, as follows:
  • BNC - project wide
  • TGA - Task Group A (corpus design)
  • TGB - Task Group B (copyright clearance)
  • TGC - Task Group C (corpus encoding and storage)
  • TGD - Task Group D (corpus enrichment)
  • PC - Project Committee
  • EC - Exploitation Committee
  • AB - Advisory Board
  • EXT - external to the project
The document number also indicates the kind of document concerned, as follows:
  • A - meeting agendas
  • N - informal notes e.g. of meetings
  • M - minutes or other formal record of meetings
  • P - published or formally presented papers
  • R - short formal reports other than minutes
  • W - working drafts and proposals
  • X - formal letters, publicity material, newspaper stories etc.

The following list includes all document titles identified in the original BNC Project's document register. Where a copy of the document is available from this vault, a link to it is included. Please note that these are working documents, which should not be cited or linked to without permission.

  1. Burnard: BNC Document management system (1 May 91) bncw01.sgml
  2. Clear: Planned uses of the National Corpus. (11 Apr 91)
  3. (Not issued)
  4. Mission statement (15 Jan 91)
  5. Consortium Agreement [ (Filed under ``The Agreement'') ]
  6. Summers: The Spoken Corpus. [ (Includes draft transcription scheme for spoken texts) ] (Apr 91)
  7. Clear: Task Groups. (11 Apr 91)
  8. Clear: Written Corpus Design Specification (2 Sep 91)
  9. IED4/1/2184 Poster [ (One page project description for DTI) ] (17 Jun 91)
  10. Quarterly Report and Grant Claim: quarter 2 (26 Aug 91)
  11. BNC Context statement (draft 8 Jul 91) bncp11.txt
  12. Burnage: The BNC and Ireland. A visit report 10-15 Nov 1991 (Nov 1991)
  13. Dunlop: Minutes of BNC Task Group Managers' Meeting, held 10 Dec 91 bncm13.pdf
  14. Burnage: The British National Corpus: its purpose, design and implementation [ (Overheads prepared for Irish tour) ]
  15. BNC Software tools [ (Discussed at Task Group Managers meeting, Dec 10th 91) ]
  16. Burnage: Text Corpora and the BNC [ (Published in CTI Newsletter ``Computers and Texts'', Nov 91) ] (Oct 1991) bncx16.txt
  17. Clear: BNC Milestones by quarter [ (Revised version presented at PC meeting on 13 Jan 92) ]
  18. Supplemental Agreement relating to collaboration upon the National Corpus of the English Language (draft of 10 Jan 92)
  19. Clear: British National Corpus: Level 2 Plan [ (Shows schedules and milestones) ] (24 Mar 92)
  20. OUCS ALLC Foils (8 Apr 92)Dunlop: [ (Presented at BNC session of ALLC--ACH conference) ] bncp20.txt
  21. British National Corpus Report & Grant Claim, quarters 3 & 4Clear: (26 Feb 92) [ (Reporting period 1 Jul 91--31 Dec 91) ]
  22. BNC Level 2 Plan (2 Jun 92)Clear: [ (Draft version) ]
  23. 100 Million words of English: The British National Corpus (BNC) ProjectLeech: (Jan 93) [ (Article from English Today 33, vol. 9, no. 1) ]
  24. OUCS ICAME Foils (4 Jun 92)Dunlop: [ (Presented at ICAME conference, Nijmegen) ]
  25. Longman Spoken Corpus Technical ReportBritish Market Research Bureau: (Jul 92)
  26. English in the RawSummers: (3 Jul 92) [ (With covering letter to project participants) ]
  27. Encoding the British National CorpusBurnage, Dunlop: (Oct 92) [ (Paper for ICAME. Published version now on file.) ] bncx27.txt
  28. Improving corpus annotation practicesEyes, Leech: (Oct 92) [ (Paper for ICAME. Not yet on file, but available in proceedings.) ]
  29. Problems in producing a large text corpus (Oct 93) [ (Abstract of paper for AHC/ALLC 93) ]Burnage, Garside: bncx29.txt
  30. Level 2 Plan --- Schedule of milestones & deliverables (cont) [ (Continues schedule from Jan 93 to Mar 94) ]
  31. The new guardians and keepersSummers: [ (In Sunday Times Wordpower pamphlet) ] (93)
  32. A TEI-conformant header for the British National CorpusDunlop: (May 93) [ (Presented at ICAME 93, Zurich. Overhead foils (PostScript) plus) ] bncx32.txt
  33. [Interview on BBC Radio 4 Today programme]Summers: (4 Jan 93)
  34. [Interview on BBC World Service Outlook programme]Summers: (6 Jan 93)
  35. Practical Considerations in the Use of TEI headers in a LargeDunlop: (17 Jun 93) [ (Submission for Computers in the Humanities) ] bncx35.txt
  36. Problems in producing a large text corpusBurnage, Garside: [ (Presentation for 1993 ACH/ALLC conference) ] (Jun 93)
  37. Minutes of the National Corpus Initiative Consortium Meeting held 29 Aug 90 (3 Sep 90)
  38. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting held 4 Feb 91
  39. Progress Reports tabled at PC meeting held 17 Apr91 pcr03.sgml
  40. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting held 17 April 1991
  41. Agenda for Project Committee Meeting of 8 Jul 91
  42. Quarterly reports tabled at Project Committee Meeting of 8 Jul 91 pcr06.pdf pcr06.sgml
  43. Project Committee Terms of Reference (draft8 Jul 91)
  44. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 8 Jul 91
  45. [Correspondence between SMB and Tim Denvir re. project name] (9-12 Jul 91)
  46. BNC Press Release Drafts (1 Jul, 9 sept)
  47. Summers: Spoken Corpus Recording Guidelines [ (Conversation record booklet; Guidelines for recording conversations; Chatterbox pilot questionnaire) ] (12 Aug 91)
  48. Clear: [OHP foils used in presenting BNC at ICAME and ACH conferences] (10 sep 91)
  49. Crowdy: Spoken corpus sample recordings [ (Recordings on DAT. ToC on paper.) ] (10 Sep 91)
  50. Agenda for Project Committee Meeting on 20 Sep 91
  51. Quarterly reports tabled at Project Committee Meeting of 20 Sep 91 pcr15.pdf pcr15.sgml
  52. Burnage: The BNC data catchment area: a proposal (2 Jan 1992)
  53. Data Capture Costs: OUP and Longman Estimates [ (circulated to PC Meeting 20 Sep 91) ]
  54. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 20 Sep 91
  55. Minutes of the extraordinary Project Committee Meeting of 1 Oct 91 [ (Includes correspondence between D Summers and H Thompson re representativeness issue) ]
  56. Agenda and quarterly reports for Project Committee Meeting of 13 Jan 92 pca20.pdf pca20.sgml
  57. Burnage: BNC Text repository (25 Mar 92)
  58. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 13 Jan 92 [ (Copy of letter re ALLC/ACH 92 from ALLC attached) ]
  59. Agenda and quarterly reports for Project Committee Meeting of 31 Mar 92 pca23.pdf
  60. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 31 Mar 92
  61. BNC Quarterly Progress Summary: Quarter 6, Jun 92 (Jun 92)Clear:
  62. BNC Exploitation CommitteeBenbow: (5 Oct 92)
  63. DTI Cost Claims StatusClear: (4 Jun 92)
  64. Agenda and quarterly reports for Project Committee Meeting of 30 Jun 92 [ (Partially on file) ] pca28.pdf
  65. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 30 Jun 92
  66. Project Manager's Quarterly Report 01/01/92 -- 31/03/92Clear: (15 Jun 92)
  67. Agenda and enclosures for Project Committee Meeting of 12 Oct pca31.pdf
  68. Information Search and Retrieval Package (ISRP) [ (Replaces Proposed outline specification of Information Search and) ]Leech, Bryant: (22 Feb 93) pcw32.pdf
  69. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 12 Oct 92
  70. Agenda and attachments for Project Committee meeting of 18 Jan 93 pca34.pdf pca34.txt
  71. BNC ExploitationBenbow: (5 Oct 92)
  72. BNC ExploitationBenbow: (13 Jan 93)
  73. Discussion document for selective linguistic annotationLeech, Bryant: (11 Jan 93)
  74. Unpublished materialChambers: (Mar 93) [ (version 2.2) ]
  75. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 18 Jan 93 [ (Not yet on file) ]
  76. Report on ways to achieve the target of 10 million wordsCrowdy: (13 Jan 93)
  77. PresentationLongman: [ (Gives Spoken corpus status) ] (18 Jan 93)
  78. Agenda and attachments for Project Committee meeting of 26 Apr 93 pca42.pdf
  79. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 26 Apr 93
  80. Core corpus design [draft]Eyes, Leech: [ (Some copies misnumbered PCR44) ] (Jul 93) pcw44.pdf
  81. Agenda and attachments for Project Committee meeting of 7 Jul 93 [ (Not yet fully on file) ]
  82. Anonymization of names and other identifiers in the unpublished materialAllen: (28 Jun 93)
  83. Burnard: A note on anonymization (6 Jul 93) pcw47.txt
  84. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 7 Jul 93 [ (Not yet on file) ]
  85. Analysis of text types in British National Corpus (12 Oct 93)Burnard Dunlop:
  86. Agenda and attachments for Project Committee meeting of 19 Oct 93 [ (Not yet fully on file) ]
  87. Non-commercial access to the BNC (draft)Burnard: (Oct 93) pcw51.txt
  88. Leech: (14 Oct 93)
  89. Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 19 Oct 93 [ (Not yet on file) ]
  90. Minutes of Advisory Council Meeting held 7 Mar 91
  91. Agenda and enclosures for Advisory Council Meeting of 20 Sep 91
  92. Minutes of Advisory Council Meeting held 20 Sep 91
  93. Agenda and enclosures for the Advisory Council Meeting of 14 Jan 92 [ (Not on file) ]
  94. Minutes of Advisory Council Meeting held 14 Jan 92 [ (LB DD) ]
  95. Agenda and enclosures for the Advisory Council Meeting of 30 Jun 92 [ (Not on file) ]
  96. Minutes of Advisory Council Meeting held 30 Jun 92 [ (Not on file) ]
  97. Agenda and enclosures for the Advisory Council Meeting of 18 Jan 93
  98. Minutes of Advisory Council Meeting held 18 Jan 93 [ (Not on file) ]
  99. Minutes of meeting of 30 Nov 92 tcm01.pdf
  100. Minutes of meeting of 25 Feb 93Burnard: tcm02.pdf
  101. Minutes of meeting of 27 May 93Burnage, Dunlop: tcm03.pdf
  102. Minutes of meeting of 9 Sep 93Crowdy: [ (Not yet on file) ]
  103. Report on BNC TGA Meeting of 10 Apr 91 tgan01.txt
  104. Atkins Clear and Ostler: Corpus design criteria [ ((Pisa Paper)) ] tgaw02.pdf
  105. Summers: Longman/Lancaster English Language Corpus - criteria and design. (Mar 1991)
  106. Clear: Corpus Design Specification [ (Subsequent drafts renumbered as BNCW08) ] (24 May and 1 Jul 91) tgaw04.pdf
  107. Burnage: Corpus Design: OUCS Comments. (31 May 91)
  108. Leech: Comments on the OUP Corpus Design Document and the OUCS Response. (3 Jun 91) tgaw06.txt
  109. Crowdy: BNC Design Meeting [ (Notes on a meeting between Longman and OUP held 15 March 1991) ]
  110. Crowdy: BNC Corpus Design Specification: Longman comments on draft paper. (14 May, 10 Jun 91)
  111. Leech: Comments on BNC Planned uses (BNCW02) and Corpus Design (TGAW04) (10 May 91)
  112. Burnage: Minutes of meeting of 5 Jun 91 (7 Jun 91) tgam10.txt
  113. Burnard: Queries for meeting of TGA on spoken texts. (15 Aug 91) tgaw11.txt
  114. Dunlop: Matters for discussion at BNC task group A meeting of 29 Aug (28 Aug 91) tgaw12.txt
  115. Clear: Minutes of meeting 29 Aug 91 (3 Sep 91) tgam13.txt
  116. Crowdy et al: Spoken Corpus Design Specification (19 Sep; 26 Sep; 24 Oct 91)
  117. TGA14: Comments from OUCS tgaw16.txt
  118. Burnage: BNC in Northern Ireland: progress report (17 Oct 91)
  119. Dunlop: [Notes on implications of decisions of AC meeting, 20 Sep 91] (8 Oct 91)
  120. Sweeny: Selection and classification of texts (27 Apr 92) [ (Previous version was dated 26 Mar 92) ]
  121. Minutes of TGA meeting of 31 Jul 92Clear: (31 Jul 92)
  122. Selecting titles for the British National Corpus [ (Guidelines for random text selection) ]Clear:
  123. Britishness test for written corpus textsDunlop: (10 Feb 93) tgaw22.pdf
  124. Letter from SMB to Charles Clark (PA) (3 Jul 91)
  125. BNC Background (5 Jul 91)
  126. Draft permissions request form (5 Jul 91)
  127. Draft licence agreement for BNC users (5 Jul 91; revised 11 Nov 91)
  128. BNC Permissions Request (19 Jun 92) [ (Final version. Includes covering letter of thanks from S M-B, Copyright Holders' question sheet, End-user licence) ]
  129. Spoken corpus permissions letterLongman:
  130. BNC Permissions RequestOUP: [ (Really the final version. WordPerfect diskette.) ]
  131. Burnard: Markup scheme for the BNC. (25 April 91) tgcw01.sgml
  132. Leech: Basic grammatical tagset initial proposal; Penn Treebank Tagset [ (Summarises mapping of MM's reduced tagset onto the 66 Lancaster word class tag set) ]
  133. CPH Appendix A 13 Jan 89 [ (Longman's original proposals for encoding corpus materials) ]
  134. Clear: Encoding and Markup for the Oxford Pilot Corpus. [ (Includes Pilot Corpus Markup list) ] (drafts Sep 90, May 91, Oct 91) tgcw04.pdf
  135. Burnage: BNC text processing and database design: some draft proposals. (29 May 91)
  136. Dunlop: Text Submission Guidelines. (29 May 91) tgcw06.pdf
  137. Dunlop: Encoding the Oxford Milton. (31 May 91) tgcw07.pdf
  138. Dunlop: Text Submission Guidelines --- Rekeyed or scanned materials from OUP. (24 Jun 91)
  139. Crowdy: Spoken Corpus: Selective side discourse categories and types; Draft spoken corpus transcription scheme.
  140. Dunlop et al: British National Corpus development DTD. (22 Aug 91)
  141. Marked up spoken corpus sample. (21 Aug 91) tgcw11.sgml
  142. Marked up written corpus sample. (The Wimbledon Poisoner) tgcw12.sgml
  143. Dunlop: VM2 man page
  144. Burnard: Minutes of BNC Task Group C Meeting, 5 Jun 91 (7 Jun 91) tgcm14.pdf tgcm14.sgml
  145. Leech: Comments on the minutes of Task Group C, 7 Jun 1991 dealing with CDIF (29 Jul 91) tgcn15.txt
  146. Simple Sample DTD with basic structural elements for BNC texts (4 Jul 91) tgcn16.sgml
  147. Dunlop: Notes on meeting held at OUCS, 23 Aug (27 Aug 91) tgcn17.txt
  148. Draft Corpus header (1 Nov 91) tgcw18.sgml
  149. Dunlop: [Corpus text selection and classification features] (10 Dec 91)
  150. Crowdy et al: Spoken corpus transcription guidelines (6 Dec 91, 18 Dec 91)
  151. Minutes of TGC Meeting held 10 Dec 91
  152. Dunlop: Sample CDIF-encoded texts from OUP: preliminary OUCS findings (23 Dec 91) tgcw23.pdf
  153. Untitled list of CDIF tags and their optionality
  154. Dunlop: Markup for non-ISO 646 invariant part characters [ (Page 3 updated 28 Feb 92, 25 Mar 92) ] (28 Jan 92, 17 Feb 92)
  155. Is the Conversion of Longman/Lancaster Texts to CDIF Possible?Burnage: (Jul 92)
  156. Burnard: BNC Acceptance Procedures --- Draft OUCS Proposals (20 Jan 92, 12 Feb 92, 6 Mar 92) tgcw27.pdf tgcw27.sgml
  157. Burnard, Dunlop: Preliminary CDIF DTD and entities (17 Feb 92)
  158. Minutes for meeting of 19 Feb 92 (26 Feb 92) tgcm29.pdf
  159. Burnard: Corpus Document Interchange Format v. 1.2 (15 Sep 92) tgcw30.pdf
  160. A Program for Summarizing CDIF Tag UsageDunlop: (30 Apr 92) tgcw31.txt
  161. Using REFORMAT and CHECKBurnage: (May 92)
  162. BNC Data Capture: OUP format definition for text handover to OUCSClear: (14 Jul 92) tgcw33.pdf
  163. The Relationship Between the TEI.2 Header and the BNC Corpus and Text HeadersDunlop: (4 Aug 92) tgcw34.pdf
  164. Burnage, Dunlop: Corpus Text Processing: Directory Struture and File Names (13 May 93) [ (Revised version) ]
  165. Dunlop: The New BNC Database (1 Oct 92) tgcw36.pdf
  166. Minutes for meeting of 29 Sep 92 (2 Oct 92)
  167. [Proposal on representation of dialectal forms]Crowdy: [ (Not yet on file) ]
  168. weeklyReport --- summarize weekly corpus throughputDunlop: (16 Nov 92) tgcw39.txt
  169. weeklySummary --- summarize corpus throughput in last week (orDunlop: (19 Nov 93) [ (Amended version. Supersedes TGCW39. Formerly misnumbered TCW01) ] tgcw40.txt
  170. minimize --- minimize CDIF tagging and rearrange problematicDunlop: (8 Feb 93) [ (Formerly misnumbered TCW02) ] tgcw41.txt
  171. Report on Longman spoken corpus data [ (Private communication between Longman and OUCS) ]Burnage: (Feb 93)
  172. OUP data capture mark-up --- suggestions for tweaksBaguley, Dunlop: (7 Dec 92) [ (Presentation materials) ]
  173. Error handling procedures --- A Lancaster viewpointBryant, Eyes: (23 Feb 93)
  174. Proposals for amendments to OUP transfer formatDunlop: (23 Feb 93) tgcw45.pdf
  175. [ ((Not issued)) ]
  176. Procedure for loading text received from data capture agenciesDunlop: (Mar 93) tgcw48.txt
  177. Resub --- prepare database for resubmission of text by dataDunlop: (12 May 93) tgcw49.txt
  178. overnight --- perform overnight housekeeping for corpus filesDunlop: (12 May 93) tgcw50.txt
  179. Minutes of BNC meeting on spoken corpus data 17 Feb 93Crowdy: [ (Private communication between Longman and OUCS) ]
  180. Corpus markup --- codes for keyboardersOUP: (26 Mar 93) [ (Supersedes series of appendices to TGCW04) ]
  181. Crowdy: (7 Sep 93)List of vocalized pause and dielectal forms
  182. oupconv --- convert OUP transfer format to approximate CDIFDunlop: (Jul 93) tgcw54.txt
  183. Dunlop: oup2bnc --- update BNC database with information derived from (25 Aug 93) tgcw55.txt
  184. Guide to Longman/Lancaster header codes [ (Received Aug 93) ]
  185. Dunlop: longmanconv --- convert Longman transfer format to approximate (2 Sep 93) tgcw57.txt
  186. [ ((Not issued)) ]
  187. CDIF mechanisms available for the representation of anonymizedDunlop: (15 Sep 93) tgcw59.pdf
  188. Dialect list [ (Lists header codes used by Longman for participant dialect) ]
  189. Database classification scheme [ (Applies to OUP written text headers) ]
  190. Dunlop: longman2bnc --- update BNC database with information derived from (10 Feb 94) tgcw62.txt
  191. Leech: BNC Basic Grammatical Tagset. (5 Sep 91) tgdw01.pdf
  192. Langendoen: Proposal for TEI-Conformant Encoding of Basic Grammatical Tagset. (3 Sep 91) tgdw02.pdf
  193. Dunlop: Mail to task group D [ (Points for meeting of 5 Sep 91) ]
  194. Dunlop: Lexical tagging: position following meeting of 5 Sep 91 (6 Sep 91)
  195. Clear: Notes on Basic Grammatical Tagset. (4 Sep 91)
  196. Bryant: Task Group D - Corpus Processing - Minutes of First Meeting. (5 Sep 91) tgdm07.pdf
  197. Leech: Revised proposal for basic grammatical tagset (28 Sep 92) [ (Supersedes version of 1 Apr 92) ] tgdw08.pdf
  198. Langendoen: Preliminary Feature Structure Definition for CDIF (20 Jan 92) tgdw09.txt
  199. Skeleton Parsing ManualUCREL: (92)
  200. Leech: (7 Jun 93) [ (Supersedes version of 2 Oct 92) ]Proposal for Enriched Grammatical Tagset (revised) tgdw11.pdf
  201. Segment type list for Skeleton Parser [ (Not yet on file) ]
  202. Minutes for meeting of 29 Sep 92 (2 Oct 92)
  203. Selective Linguistic Annotation (22 Feb 93)Bryant: tgdw14.pdf
  204. Input, Search & Retrieval Package --- Practical ConsiderationsBryant: (22 Feb 93) tgdw15.pdf
  205. Software for searching large SGML textbasesBurnard: [ (Draft proposal for a research post to be funded by the British Library) ] (24 May 93) tgdw16.pdf tgdw16.txt
  206. Subgroup reports from SALT club workshop on corpus resources (3--4 Jan 90)
  207. HECTOR project report [ (Not yet on file --- to be supplied by Crowdy) ]
  208. ISRP specification, revision 3Dodd: (17 Jan 94) [ (Updates Burnage's version of Nov 93) ]

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