Meet the BNC

The BNC is the largest corpus we have at Lancaster. It is huge.

Look at the BNC folder and see just how huge the corpus is!

1. Now go back to the root directory 'Bowland_back'.
2. Go to the 'bnc_plain' directory.
3. Browse a couple of directories and files.
4. Check what each corpus file looks like.
   Can you distinguish the SGML header from the text?

We will look at the BNC in much great detail later in the course.