BNCweb (CQP edition) - the marriage of two corpus tools.
Sebastian Hoffmann · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · 2006
In order to realize the full potential of electronic corpora, most of today's linguists depend on the availability of specialized software tools. In this paper, we first present two existing software packages ‐ BNCweb and the CQP query processor ‐ and discuss their strengths and drawbacks. We then show that a marriage of these tools has led to a new package that combines the efficiency and flexibility of CQP queries with the user-friendliness of BNCweb and its wide range of post-query features. Finally, we outline a blueprint for a more general search tool which we plan to implement in the near future.