BNC Document Register
The following list includes all document titles identified in the original BNC Project's document register. Where a copy of the document is available from this vault, a link to it is included. Please note that these are working documents, which should not be cited or linked to without permission.
- Burnard: BNC Document management system (1 May 91) bncw01.sgml
- Clear: Planned uses of the National Corpus. (11 Apr 91)
- (Not issued)
- Mission statement (15 Jan 91)
- Consortium Agreement [ (Filed under ``The Agreement'') ]
- Summers: The Spoken Corpus. [ (Includes draft transcription scheme for spoken texts) ] (Apr 91)
- Clear: Task Groups. (11 Apr 91)
- Clear: Written Corpus Design Specification (2 Sep 91)
- IED4/1/2184 Poster [ (One page project description for DTI) ] (17 Jun 91)
- Quarterly Report and Grant Claim: quarter 2 (26 Aug 91)
- BNC Context statement (draft 8 Jul 91) bncp11.txt
- Burnage: The BNC and Ireland. A visit report 10-15 Nov 1991 (Nov 1991)
- Dunlop: Minutes of BNC Task Group Managers' Meeting, held 10 Dec 91 bncm13.pdf
- Burnage: The British National Corpus: its purpose, design and implementation [ (Overheads prepared for Irish tour) ]
- BNC Software tools [ (Discussed at Task Group Managers meeting, Dec 10th 91) ]
- Burnage: Text Corpora and the BNC [ (Published in CTI Newsletter ``Computers and Texts'', Nov 91) ] (Oct 1991) bncx16.txt
- Clear: BNC Milestones by quarter [ (Revised version presented at PC meeting on 13 Jan 92) ]
- Supplemental Agreement relating to collaboration upon the National Corpus of the English Language (draft of 10 Jan 92)
- Clear: British National Corpus: Level 2 Plan [ (Shows schedules and milestones) ] (24 Mar 92)
- OUCS ALLC Foils (8 Apr 92)Dunlop: [ (Presented at BNC session of ALLC--ACH conference) ] bncp20.txt
- British National Corpus Report & Grant Claim, quarters 3 & 4Clear: (26 Feb 92) [ (Reporting period 1 Jul 91--31 Dec 91) ]
- BNC Level 2 Plan (2 Jun 92)Clear: [ (Draft version) ]
- 100 Million words of English: The British National Corpus (BNC) ProjectLeech: (Jan 93) [ (Article from English Today 33, vol. 9, no. 1) ]
- OUCS ICAME Foils (4 Jun 92)Dunlop: [ (Presented at ICAME conference, Nijmegen) ]
- Longman Spoken Corpus Technical ReportBritish Market Research Bureau: (Jul 92)
- English in the RawSummers: (3 Jul 92) [ (With covering letter to project participants) ]
- Encoding the British National CorpusBurnage, Dunlop: (Oct 92) [ (Paper for ICAME. Published version now on file.) ] bncx27.txt
- Improving corpus annotation practicesEyes, Leech: (Oct 92) [ (Paper for ICAME. Not yet on file, but available in proceedings.) ]
- Problems in producing a large text corpus (Oct 93) [ (Abstract of paper for AHC/ALLC 93) ]Burnage, Garside: bncx29.txt
- Level 2 Plan --- Schedule of milestones & deliverables (cont) [ (Continues schedule from Jan 93 to Mar 94) ]
- The new guardians and keepersSummers: [ (In Sunday Times Wordpower pamphlet) ] (93)
- A TEI-conformant header for the British National CorpusDunlop: (May 93) [ (Presented at ICAME 93, Zurich. Overhead foils (PostScript) plus) ] bncx32.txt
- [Interview on BBC Radio 4 Today programme]Summers: (4 Jan 93)
- [Interview on BBC World Service Outlook programme]Summers: (6 Jan 93)
- Practical Considerations in the Use of TEI headers in a LargeDunlop: (17 Jun 93) [ (Submission for Computers in the Humanities) ] bncx35.txt
- Problems in producing a large text corpusBurnage, Garside: [ (Presentation for 1993 ACH/ALLC conference) ] (Jun 93)
- Minutes of the National Corpus Initiative Consortium Meeting held 29 Aug 90 (3 Sep 90)
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting held 4 Feb 91
- Progress Reports tabled at PC meeting held 17 Apr91 pcr03.sgml
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting held 17 April 1991
- Agenda for Project Committee Meeting of 8 Jul 91
- Quarterly reports tabled at Project Committee Meeting of 8 Jul 91 pcr06.pdf pcr06.sgml
- Project Committee Terms of Reference (draft8 Jul 91)
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 8 Jul 91
- [Correspondence between SMB and Tim Denvir re. project name] (9-12 Jul 91)
- BNC Press Release Drafts (1 Jul, 9 sept)
- Summers: Spoken Corpus Recording Guidelines [ (Conversation record booklet; Guidelines for recording conversations; Chatterbox pilot questionnaire) ] (12 Aug 91)
- Clear: [OHP foils used in presenting BNC at ICAME and ACH conferences] (10 sep 91)
- Crowdy: Spoken corpus sample recordings [ (Recordings on DAT. ToC on paper.) ] (10 Sep 91)
- Agenda for Project Committee Meeting on 20 Sep 91
- Quarterly reports tabled at Project Committee Meeting of 20 Sep 91 pcr15.pdf pcr15.sgml
- Burnage: The BNC data catchment area: a proposal (2 Jan 1992)
- Data Capture Costs: OUP and Longman Estimates [ (circulated to PC Meeting 20 Sep 91) ]
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 20 Sep 91
- Minutes of the extraordinary Project Committee Meeting of 1 Oct 91 [ (Includes correspondence between D Summers and H Thompson re representativeness issue) ]
- Agenda and quarterly reports for Project Committee Meeting of 13 Jan 92 pca20.pdf pca20.sgml
- Burnage: BNC Text repository (25 Mar 92)
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 13 Jan 92 [ (Copy of letter re ALLC/ACH 92 from ALLC attached) ]
- Agenda and quarterly reports for Project Committee Meeting of 31 Mar 92 pca23.pdf
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 31 Mar 92
- BNC Quarterly Progress Summary: Quarter 6, Jun 92 (Jun 92)Clear:
- BNC Exploitation CommitteeBenbow: (5 Oct 92)
- DTI Cost Claims StatusClear: (4 Jun 92)
- Agenda and quarterly reports for Project Committee Meeting of 30 Jun 92 [ (Partially on file) ] pca28.pdf
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 30 Jun 92
- Project Manager's Quarterly Report 01/01/92 -- 31/03/92Clear: (15 Jun 92)
- Agenda and enclosures for Project Committee Meeting of 12 Oct pca31.pdf
- Information Search and Retrieval Package (ISRP) [ (Replaces Proposed outline specification of Information Search and) ]Leech, Bryant: (22 Feb 93) pcw32.pdf
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 12 Oct 92
- Agenda and attachments for Project Committee meeting of 18 Jan 93 pca34.pdf pca34.txt
- BNC ExploitationBenbow: (5 Oct 92)
- BNC ExploitationBenbow: (13 Jan 93)
- Discussion document for selective linguistic annotationLeech, Bryant: (11 Jan 93)
- Unpublished materialChambers: (Mar 93) [ (version 2.2) ]
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 18 Jan 93 [ (Not yet on file) ]
- Report on ways to achieve the target of 10 million wordsCrowdy: (13 Jan 93)
- PresentationLongman: [ (Gives Spoken corpus status) ] (18 Jan 93)
- Agenda and attachments for Project Committee meeting of 26 Apr 93 pca42.pdf
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 26 Apr 93
- Core corpus design [draft]Eyes, Leech: [ (Some copies misnumbered PCR44) ] (Jul 93) pcw44.pdf
- Agenda and attachments for Project Committee meeting of 7 Jul 93 [ (Not yet fully on file) ]
- Anonymization of names and other identifiers in the unpublished materialAllen: (28 Jun 93)
- Burnard: A note on anonymization (6 Jul 93) pcw47.txt
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 7 Jul 93 [ (Not yet on file) ]
- Analysis of text types in British National Corpus (12 Oct 93)Burnard Dunlop:
- Agenda and attachments for Project Committee meeting of 19 Oct 93 [ (Not yet fully on file) ]
- Non-commercial access to the BNC (draft)Burnard: (Oct 93) pcw51.txt
- Leech: (14 Oct 93)
- Minutes of the Project Committee Meeting of 19 Oct 93 [ (Not yet on file) ]
- Minutes of Advisory Council Meeting held 7 Mar 91
- Agenda and enclosures for Advisory Council Meeting of 20 Sep 91
- Minutes of Advisory Council Meeting held 20 Sep 91
- Agenda and enclosures for the Advisory Council Meeting of 14 Jan 92 [ (Not on file) ]
- Minutes of Advisory Council Meeting held 14 Jan 92 [ (LB DD) ]
- Agenda and enclosures for the Advisory Council Meeting of 30 Jun 92 [ (Not on file) ]
- Minutes of Advisory Council Meeting held 30 Jun 92 [ (Not on file) ]
- Agenda and enclosures for the Advisory Council Meeting of 18 Jan 93
- Minutes of Advisory Council Meeting held 18 Jan 93 [ (Not on file) ]
- Minutes of meeting of 30 Nov 92 tcm01.pdf
- Minutes of meeting of 25 Feb 93Burnard: tcm02.pdf
- Minutes of meeting of 27 May 93Burnage, Dunlop: tcm03.pdf
- Minutes of meeting of 9 Sep 93Crowdy: [ (Not yet on file) ]
- Report on BNC TGA Meeting of 10 Apr 91 tgan01.txt
- Atkins Clear and Ostler: Corpus design criteria [ ((Pisa Paper)) ] tgaw02.pdf
- Summers: Longman/Lancaster English Language Corpus - criteria and design. (Mar 1991)
- Clear: Corpus Design Specification [ (Subsequent drafts renumbered as BNCW08) ] (24 May and 1 Jul 91) tgaw04.pdf
- Burnage: Corpus Design: OUCS Comments. (31 May 91)
- Leech: Comments on the OUP Corpus Design Document and the OUCS Response. (3 Jun 91) tgaw06.txt
- Crowdy: BNC Design Meeting [ (Notes on a meeting between Longman and OUP held 15 March 1991) ]
- Crowdy: BNC Corpus Design Specification: Longman comments on draft paper. (14 May, 10 Jun 91)
- Leech: Comments on BNC Planned uses (BNCW02) and Corpus Design (TGAW04) (10 May 91)
- Burnage: Minutes of meeting of 5 Jun 91 (7 Jun 91) tgam10.txt
- Burnard: Queries for meeting of TGA on spoken texts. (15 Aug 91) tgaw11.txt
- Dunlop: Matters for discussion at BNC task group A meeting of 29 Aug (28 Aug 91) tgaw12.txt
- Clear: Minutes of meeting 29 Aug 91 (3 Sep 91) tgam13.txt
- Crowdy et al: Spoken Corpus Design Specification (19 Sep; 26 Sep; 24 Oct 91)
- TGA14: Comments from OUCS tgaw16.txt
- Burnage: BNC in Northern Ireland: progress report (17 Oct 91)
- Dunlop: [Notes on implications of decisions of AC meeting, 20 Sep 91] (8 Oct 91)
- Sweeny: Selection and classification of texts (27 Apr 92) [ (Previous version was dated 26 Mar 92) ]
- Minutes of TGA meeting of 31 Jul 92Clear: (31 Jul 92)
- Selecting titles for the British National Corpus [ (Guidelines for random text selection) ]Clear:
- Britishness test for written corpus textsDunlop: (10 Feb 93) tgaw22.pdf
- Letter from SMB to Charles Clark (PA) (3 Jul 91)
- BNC Background (5 Jul 91)
- Draft permissions request form (5 Jul 91)
- Draft licence agreement for BNC users (5 Jul 91; revised 11 Nov 91)
- BNC Permissions Request (19 Jun 92) [ (Final version. Includes covering letter of thanks from S M-B, Copyright Holders' question sheet, End-user licence) ]
- Spoken corpus permissions letterLongman:
- BNC Permissions RequestOUP: [ (Really the final version. WordPerfect diskette.) ]
- Burnard: Markup scheme for the BNC. (25 April 91) tgcw01.sgml
- Leech: Basic grammatical tagset initial proposal; Penn Treebank Tagset [ (Summarises mapping of MM's reduced tagset onto the 66 Lancaster word class tag set) ]
- CPH Appendix A 13 Jan 89 [ (Longman's original proposals for encoding corpus materials) ]
- Clear: Encoding and Markup for the Oxford Pilot Corpus. [ (Includes Pilot Corpus Markup list) ] (drafts Sep 90, May 91, Oct 91) tgcw04.pdf
- Burnage: BNC text processing and database design: some draft proposals. (29 May 91)
- Dunlop: Text Submission Guidelines. (29 May 91) tgcw06.pdf
- Dunlop: Encoding the Oxford Milton. (31 May 91) tgcw07.pdf
- Dunlop: Text Submission Guidelines --- Rekeyed or scanned materials from OUP. (24 Jun 91)
- Crowdy: Spoken Corpus: Selective side discourse categories and types; Draft spoken corpus transcription scheme.
- Dunlop et al: British National Corpus development DTD. (22 Aug 91)
- Marked up spoken corpus sample. (21 Aug 91) tgcw11.sgml
- Marked up written corpus sample. (The Wimbledon Poisoner) tgcw12.sgml
- Dunlop: VM2 man page
- Burnard: Minutes of BNC Task Group C Meeting, 5 Jun 91 (7 Jun 91) tgcm14.pdf tgcm14.sgml
- Leech: Comments on the minutes of Task Group C, 7 Jun 1991 dealing with CDIF (29 Jul 91) tgcn15.txt
- Simple Sample DTD with basic structural elements for BNC texts (4 Jul 91) tgcn16.sgml
- Dunlop: Notes on meeting held at OUCS, 23 Aug (27 Aug 91) tgcn17.txt
- Draft Corpus header (1 Nov 91) tgcw18.sgml
- Dunlop: [Corpus text selection and classification features] (10 Dec 91)
- Crowdy et al: Spoken corpus transcription guidelines (6 Dec 91, 18 Dec 91)
- Minutes of TGC Meeting held 10 Dec 91
- Dunlop: Sample CDIF-encoded texts from OUP: preliminary OUCS findings (23 Dec 91) tgcw23.pdf
- Untitled list of CDIF tags and their optionality
- Dunlop: Markup for non-ISO 646 invariant part characters [ (Page 3 updated 28 Feb 92, 25 Mar 92) ] (28 Jan 92, 17 Feb 92)
- Is the Conversion of Longman/Lancaster Texts to CDIF Possible?Burnage: (Jul 92)
- Burnard: BNC Acceptance Procedures --- Draft OUCS Proposals (20 Jan 92, 12 Feb 92, 6 Mar 92) tgcw27.pdf tgcw27.sgml
- Burnard, Dunlop: Preliminary CDIF DTD and entities (17 Feb 92)
- Minutes for meeting of 19 Feb 92 (26 Feb 92) tgcm29.pdf
- Burnard: Corpus Document Interchange Format v. 1.2 (15 Sep 92) tgcw30.pdf
- A Program for Summarizing CDIF Tag UsageDunlop: (30 Apr 92) tgcw31.txt
- Using REFORMAT and CHECKBurnage: (May 92)
- BNC Data Capture: OUP format definition for text handover to OUCSClear: (14 Jul 92) tgcw33.pdf
- The Relationship Between the TEI.2 Header and the BNC Corpus and Text HeadersDunlop: (4 Aug 92) tgcw34.pdf
- Burnage, Dunlop: Corpus Text Processing: Directory Struture and File Names (13 May 93) [ (Revised version) ]
- Dunlop: The New BNC Database (1 Oct 92) tgcw36.pdf
- Minutes for meeting of 29 Sep 92 (2 Oct 92)
- [Proposal on representation of dialectal forms]Crowdy: [ (Not yet on file) ]
- weeklyReport --- summarize weekly corpus throughputDunlop: (16 Nov 92) tgcw39.txt
- weeklySummary --- summarize corpus throughput in last week (orDunlop: (19 Nov 93) [ (Amended version. Supersedes TGCW39. Formerly misnumbered TCW01) ] tgcw40.txt
- minimize --- minimize CDIF tagging and rearrange problematicDunlop: (8 Feb 93) [ (Formerly misnumbered TCW02) ] tgcw41.txt
- Report on Longman spoken corpus data [ (Private communication between Longman and OUCS) ]Burnage: (Feb 93)
- OUP data capture mark-up --- suggestions for tweaksBaguley, Dunlop: (7 Dec 92) [ (Presentation materials) ]
- Error handling procedures --- A Lancaster viewpointBryant, Eyes: (23 Feb 93)
- Proposals for amendments to OUP transfer formatDunlop: (23 Feb 93) tgcw45.pdf
- [ ((Not issued)) ]
- Procedure for loading text received from data capture agenciesDunlop: (Mar 93) tgcw48.txt
- Resub --- prepare database for resubmission of text by dataDunlop: (12 May 93) tgcw49.txt
- overnight --- perform overnight housekeeping for corpus filesDunlop: (12 May 93) tgcw50.txt
- Minutes of BNC meeting on spoken corpus data 17 Feb 93Crowdy: [ (Private communication between Longman and OUCS) ]
- Corpus markup --- codes for keyboardersOUP: (26 Mar 93) [ (Supersedes series of appendices to TGCW04) ]
- Crowdy: (7 Sep 93)List of vocalized pause and dielectal forms
- oupconv --- convert OUP transfer format to approximate CDIFDunlop: (Jul 93) tgcw54.txt
- Dunlop: oup2bnc --- update BNC database with information derived from (25 Aug 93) tgcw55.txt
- Guide to Longman/Lancaster header codes [ (Received Aug 93) ]
- Dunlop: longmanconv --- convert Longman transfer format to approximate (2 Sep 93) tgcw57.txt
- [ ((Not issued)) ]
- CDIF mechanisms available for the representation of anonymizedDunlop: (15 Sep 93) tgcw59.pdf
- Dialect list [ (Lists header codes used by Longman for participant dialect) ]
- Database classification scheme [ (Applies to OUP written text headers) ]
- Dunlop: longman2bnc --- update BNC database with information derived from (10 Feb 94) tgcw62.txt
- Leech: BNC Basic Grammatical Tagset. (5 Sep 91) tgdw01.pdf
- Langendoen: Proposal for TEI-Conformant Encoding of Basic Grammatical Tagset. (3 Sep 91) tgdw02.pdf
- Dunlop: Mail to task group D [ (Points for meeting of 5 Sep 91) ]
- Dunlop: Lexical tagging: position following meeting of 5 Sep 91 (6 Sep 91)
- Clear: Notes on Basic Grammatical Tagset. (4 Sep 91)
- Bryant: Task Group D - Corpus Processing - Minutes of First Meeting. (5 Sep 91) tgdm07.pdf
- Leech: Revised proposal for basic grammatical tagset (28 Sep 92) [ (Supersedes version of 1 Apr 92) ] tgdw08.pdf
- Langendoen: Preliminary Feature Structure Definition for CDIF (20 Jan 92) tgdw09.txt
- Skeleton Parsing ManualUCREL: (92)
- Leech: (7 Jun 93) [ (Supersedes version of 2 Oct 92) ]Proposal for Enriched Grammatical Tagset (revised) tgdw11.pdf
- Segment type list for Skeleton Parser [ (Not yet on file) ]
- Minutes for meeting of 29 Sep 92 (2 Oct 92)
- Selective Linguistic Annotation (22 Feb 93)Bryant: tgdw14.pdf
- Input, Search & Retrieval Package --- Practical ConsiderationsBryant: (22 Feb 93) tgdw15.pdf
- Software for searching large SGML textbasesBurnard: [ (Draft proposal for a research post to be funded by the British Library) ] (24 May 93) tgdw16.pdf tgdw16.txt
- Subgroup reports from SALT club workshop on corpus resources (3--4 Jan 90)
- HECTOR project report [ (Not yet on file --- to be supplied by Crowdy) ]
- ISRP specification, revision 3Dodd: (17 Jan 94) [ (Updates Burnage's version of Nov 93) ]
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