RE: Newspaper article corpora

Is there any way of extending the context on VIEW so that you can get more of an idea of how the search word is used?

Thanks,

Kate.

 

Dr. Kate Beeching Principal Lecturer, Linguistics and French

Award Leader, MA in Translation by Distance Learning

Head, International Corpus Linguistics Research Unit (ICLRU)

University of the West of England, Bristol

Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences

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From: owner-corpora@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Mark Davies
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Subject: RE: [Corpora-List] Newspaper article corpora

> Does anyone know of corpora devoted to English language
> newspaper articles (possibly available online)?  I saw that
> Reuters has developed one, but there are a few hurdles to
> navigate in order to access it.

The BNC has about 10-11 million words from newspapers, and is available
as part of the VIEW site (http://view.byu.edu).

This site also allows you to search just one part of the 100 million
word corpus (i.e. just the newspapers), so this may be a useful feature
for you. Finally, you can even zero in on just sub-registers of
newspapers (broadsheet, tabloid, sports reporting, etc).

Best,

Mark Davies

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Brigham Young University
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http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu

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