the bnc design model adam kilgarriff, sue atkins, michael rundell the lexicography masterclass
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The BNC Design Model
Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell
The Lexicography MasterClasshttp://www.lexmasterclass.com
![Page 2: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 2
BNC
Very widely used across Lexicography Linguistics Language technology Language teaching
A spectacular success
![Page 3: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 3
The BNC design model
Well planned Atkins Clear Ostler 1992
Produced a successful outcome A model for others (working on
other languages) to follow
![Page 4: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 4
Czech National Corpus American National Corpus Hungarian National Corpus Hellenic National Corpus Croatian National Corpus Slovak National Corpus National Corpus for Ireland
![Page 5: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 5
Great! However
![Page 6: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 6
![Page 7: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 7
![Page 8: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
BNC Design Model past its
sell-by
Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell
The Lexicography MasterClasshttp://www.lexmasterclass.com
![Page 9: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 9
BNC Design Model
1980s Eighteen years old Pre-web
![Page 10: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 10
Sue Atkins’ dream, ca 1985 The dream
Gazillions of text More than we could possibly imagine
The plan Let’s reach for the sky:
![Page 11: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 11
Amazing
implausibleridiculous
you won’t possibly do it
100 million: you must be kidding
![Page 12: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 12
2007: Google
everyday access to eighty thousand times as much
![Page 13: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 13
Inference
Vision behind the BNC (gazillions, reach for the sky) leads to 1980s: the BNC 2007: something quite different
![Page 14: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 14
BNC vision: other aspects
A balance of text types Substantial share (10%) spoken No swingeing copyright constraints A reference corpus
![Page 15: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 15
Balance of text types Good goal – added value for BNC Design by linguists and publishers
Reflects their ideas/interests Constrained by collection costs Prescribes not describes
Costs now quite different Blogs etc are free
“What is a good taxonomy of text types” Good open research question
![Page 16: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 16
Spoken language Many things are possible
Online transcripts Hoffman: 300m words of Larry King show
Web 2.0 cheese Whole BNC: 2,954 occurrences Spoken BNC: 456 occurrences Youtube: 34,900 videos
Everyzing.com audio search (formerly podzinger) cheese: 37,030 files
![Page 17: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 17
Play Here 0:18:23 ...
![Page 18: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 18
![Page 19: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 19
Copyright BNC isn’t do-as-you-like
Compare WordNet Corpus collectors are like search
engines Copyright and Web 2:
Website’s defense: “we did not know it was there and will
promptly remove it” OK in US law
![Page 20: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 20
A reference corpus
“a reference point for the language” Balanced Fixed
Experiments are replicable Freely available Size might not be important
Brown still works well for many questions
![Page 21: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 21
1990s Corpus building: expensive Wanted for many purposes
One-size-fits-all BNC met many needs
Many text types have too few documents
Medical, technical, children’s Used ‘because it is available’
No affordable alternatives
![Page 22: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 22
2007
Corpus building: cheap WebBootCaT
Made-to-measure corpora
Different research question: different corpus
Is “general-purpose reference corpus” a useful idea?
![Page 23: The BNC Design Model Adam Kilgarriff, Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell The Lexicography MasterClass](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022062718/56649ebe5503460f94bc8408/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Birmingham Jul 2007 Kilgarriff Atkins Rundell 23
In sum: BNC Design Model
1990s innovative and inspiring
2007 historic interest
New thinking needed for a new situation