Reference Guide for BNC-baby
edited by Lou Burnard
November 2003
Contents
1.
Introduction
2.
Design of BNC-baby
2.1.
Fiction
2.2.
Newspapers
2.3.
Spoken
2.4.
Academic
2.5.
Design of the BNC World Edition
3.
Basic structure
3.1.
Markup conventions
3.2.
An example
3.3.
Global attributes
3.4.
Corpus and text elements
3.5.
Segments and words
3.6.
Editorial indications
3.6.1.
Some examples
3.7.
Pointers
4.
Descriptive tagging
4.1.
Written texts
4.1.1.
Structural organization
4.1.2.
Paragraph-level elements and chunks
4.1.2.1.
Headings and captions
4.1.2.2.
Quotations
4.1.2.3.
Poems
4.1.2.4.
Lists
4.1.2.5.
Notes and citations
4.1.3.
Phrase-level elements
4.1.3.1.
Highlighted phrases
4.1.3.2.
Page breaks
4.2.
Spoken texts
4.2.1.
Basic structure
4.2.2.
Utterances
4.2.3.
Paralinguistic phenomena
4.2.4.
Alignment of overlapping speech
5.
The header
5.1.
The file description
5.1.1.
The title statement
5.1.2.
The edition statement
5.1.3.
The extent statement
5.1.4.
The publication statement
5.1.5.
The source description
5.1.5.1.
The recording statement
5.1.5.2.
Structured bibliographic record
5.2.
The encoding description
5.2.1.
Documentary components of the encoding description
5.2.2.
The tagging declaration
5.2.3.
The reference and classification declarations
5.3.
The profile description
5.3.1.
The creation element
5.3.2.
The <langUsage> element
5.3.3.
The participant description
5.3.3.1.
The person element
5.3.4.
The setting description
5.3.5.
Text classification
5.4.
The revision description
6.
Miscellaneous code tables
6.1.
Elements defined by the BNC DTD
6.2.
Voice quality codes
6.3.
Regional codes
6.4.
Text and genre classification codes
6.5.
Word class codes
7.
Software for BNC-baby
7.1.
Why XML?
7.2.
BNC-baby delivery format
7.3.
The BNC corpus header
8.
Lists of works excerpted
Date: (revised 19-22 Nov 2003) Author: edited by Lou Burnard (revised LB).
British National Corpus.