1st Edition
Overcoming Challenges in Corpus Construction The Spoken British National Corpus 2014
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I BEFORE CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: THEORY AND DESIGN
Chapter 2: Why a new Spoken BNC and why now?
Chapter 3: Theoretical challenges in corpus design
Part II DURING CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: THEORY MEETS PRACTICE
Chapter 4: Challenges in data collection
Chapter 5: Challenges in transcription, part I – conventions
Chapter 6: Challenges in transcription, part II – who said what?
Chapter 7: Challenges in corpus processing and dissemination
Part III AFTER CORPUS CONSTRUCTION: EVALUATING THE CORPUS
Chapter 8: Evaluating the Spoken BNC2014
Chapter 9: Conclusions and further construction work
Biography
Robbie Love is a Research Fellow at the School of Education, University of Leeds, with research interests in applied and corpus linguistics. He completed his PhD at Lancaster University in 2018, where he was lead researcher in the development of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014. Before moving to Leeds, he held a post-doctoral position at Cambridge Assessment English, where he worked on the development of the Cambridge Learner Corpus. He is co-editor of "Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech" (Routledge, 2018).
