The BNC Archive

This section of the BNC website contains superceded documentation, material of historical or background interest, relating to the creation of the BNC, taken from earlier versions of the BNC site, including some draft articles and conference reports. Please note that many of the links in these materials may have rotted away with the passage of time...

• Superceded Reference and User Guides
  • BNC Baby version 1 (2003)
  • BNC World Edition (2000) [also available as a .pdf-file]
  • A Brief Users' Guide to the Grammatical Tagging of the BNC (about BNC first edition and BNC World)
  • Manual to accompany The British National Corpus (Version 2) with Improved Word-class Tagging
  • SARA Reference Manual (for use with BNC World and first edition of BNC Sampler)
• Web pages about XAIRA (software previously distributed with the corpus, no longer supported)
• Web pages about SARA (earlier version of XAIRA, distributed with BNC World and preceding versions)
• Working Papers and reports from the original BNC project (1994-1996)
• Papers and presentations (available in full text from this site)
• Conference Reports (from events 1996-97)

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