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The WebCorp Linguist's Search Engine (WebCorpLSE) Text Archive

The WebCorp Linguist's Search Engine Project, funded by SRIF and the EPSRC, is running in the Research and Development Unit for English Studies (RDUES). The aim is to create a search engine tool which provides tailored, easy access to specified Web-based or other electronic text collections, in order to enhance the teaching and research activities of Birmingham City University colleagues. In the first instance, these are linguists and literary scholars in the School of English, and the range of interests here is reflected in the corpora stored in the Archive to date:

• The Anglo-Norman Correspondence Corpus
• The Works of Thomas Carlyle
• A Corpus of Science Fiction Texts (74 texts: 3 million words)
• The Novels of Charles Dickens

Other colleagues are now invited to use this archiving facility wherever their work would benefit from close reading of a set of texts of any kind. The scope of access will of course always be dictated by the copyright status of the texts concerned. Please contact rdues @ bcu.ac.uk for further details.

Added by Andrew Kehoe on July 18, 2007

International Best-Selling Author in University Master Class

Ken Follett, international best-selling author of Eye of the Needle and the Pillars of the Earth, has given the benefit of his experience to budding authors at the School of English.

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Added by Matt Machell on June 21, 2007