TY - BOOK AU - Nelson,Gerald AU - Wallis,Sean AU - Aarts,Bas TI - Exploring natural language: working with the British component of the international corpus of English T2 - Varieties of English around the world. General series SN - 9027248885 AV - PE1074.5 .N46 2002 U1 - 427 21 PY - 2002///] CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Pub. Co. KW - English language KW - Variation KW - Great Britain KW - Spoken English KW - Written English KW - Computational linguistics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index; Contents --; Series Editor's Introduction --; Foreword --; Preface --; Pt. 1; Introducing the corpus --; 1; Introducing ICE-GB --; 2; The ICE-GB Grammar --; Pt. 2; Exploring the corpus --; 3; Introducing the ICE Corpus Utility Program (ICECUP) --; 4; Browsing the Corpus --; 5; Fuzzy Tree Fragments and Text Queries --; 6; Combining Queries --; 7; Advanced Facilities in ICECUP 3.1 --; Pt. 3; Performing research with the corpus --; 8; Case Studies Using ICE-GB --; 9; Principles of Experimental Design with a Parsed Corpus --; Pt. 4; The future of the corpus --; 10; Future Prospects --; References --; App. 1; ICE Text Categories and Codes --; App. 2; Sources of ICE-GB Texts --; App. 3; Bibliographical and Biographical Variables --; App. 4; Structural Markup Symbols --; App. 5; A Quick Reference Guide to the ICE Grammar --; App. 6; Special Characters Used in ICE-GB --; Index ER -