Corpora: BNC Online Service

Lou Burnard (lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk)
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:24:27 +0000 (GMT)

I'm very pleased to announce (at last) that the British National Corpus (BNC)
can now be searched online over the internet from anywhere in the world.

The new BNC Online Service allows anyone with access to the internet to:

* search for words, phrases, or patterns in the BNC via a simple web interface

* register for an account on the BNC server (free for twenty days unlimited
usage)

* download the SARA client software needed to talk to this server (also
free: available for Windows3.x or 95 only)

This new service is made possible by the generosity of the British
Library (who run the server); thanks are also due to its ingenious
developers (Scotty Logan and Tony Dodd).

The address of BNC Online is http://thetis.bl.uk/

For more information on the BNC, see http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc

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