Re: center embedding

SJ Stauffer (STAUFFES@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu)
Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:02:59 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 15 March 1996, KVT wrote:

>Dear SJ: Eh? Speaking as myself, I may occasionally be annoyed, but
>not yet mad. Kindly explain, and thanks. Yours, KVT

>>On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, SJ Stauffer wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps a mad hacker has commandeered KVT's account to post
>> this series of messages? ;=)
>>

Karl, you had asked about the BNC sampler, saying

> >As for the "BNC sampler" I don't know what it is, but give
> >me a live speaker any day. Thanks. KVT

My winking response was a (very fond) swipe at Harvard from
Georgetown. All in good fun.

The BNC Sampler is a 2 million word corpus, culled from the
British National Corpus.

<A HREF=http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc>The BNC Home Page</A> says,

This sample ... contain[s] the same mixture of text types
as the BNC itself, but with a higher (50%) proportion of spoken
texts.

About the BNC itself, the home page says,

The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100 million word
collection of samples of written and spoken language from a
wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide
cross-section of current British English, both spoken and
written.

Copies of the corpus are now freely available within Europe for
research purposes only.

--SJ Stauffer (the March Hare?)

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