100 Million Words of English:The British National Corpus (BNC)

By Geoffrey Leech. 1992

Subfields: Evaluation & Benchmarks

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Citations in the corpus

• The ROOTS Search Tool: Data Transparency for LLMs (2023, neutral): “For example, the 100M word British National Corpus (Leech, 1992) was created to represent the spoken and written British English of the late 20th century, with each text handpicked by experts, who also procured appropriate copyright exemptions.”
• Measuring Data (2022, background): “Lexical Diversity (language ): Early research on some of the first “large” corpora, such as the British National Corpus, also provided many statistical measurements – for example, regarding concordances and collocations (Leech, 1992).”
• A Survey of Available Corpora For Building Data-Driven Dialogue Systems: The Journal Version (2015, background): “BNC covers a large number of sources, and was designed to represent a wide cross-section of British English from the late twentieth century.”
• Measuring the Evolution of a Scientific Field through Citation Frames (2018, neutral): “results also empirically confirm the observation of Spärck Jones (2001) that a major trend in NLP in the 1990s was an increase in reusable technologies and evaluations, like the BNC (Leech, 1992) and the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al.”
• Changing the World by Changing the Data (2021, background): “A major achievement of corpus linguists are the “national corpora" such as BNC (Leech, 1992), painstakingly created to represent a diverse sample of written and spoken genres in a certain geographical region in a certain timeframe, so as to enable studies of that specific variety of language.”
• SemEval-2007 Task 10: English Lexical Substitution Task (2007, methodology): “Synonyms from the first synset of the target word, and ranked with frequency data obtained from the BNC (Leech, 1992).”
• Survey on evaluation methods for dialogue systems (2019, background): “, 1992] (telephone conversations on pre-specified topics), British National Corpus [Leech, 1992] (British dialogues many contexts, from formal business or government meetings to radio shows and phone-ins) and SubTle Corpus [Ameixa and Coheur, 2013] (aligned interaction-response pairs from movie subt”