Thanks to the Spoken BNC2014, I may have to include the phrase "[…] I've never fucking met this girl and she was fucking being a dick […]" in my #PhD thesis because it turns out that second "fucking" is placed in an unfortunate position for POS taggers. 😇 #CorpusLinguistics

This afternoon #ICAME40: Practical demo of #BNC2014Baby+ and brand new #LancsBox v 4.5 ⁦CASS⁩

Pretesting #LancsBox v. 4.5 and #BNC2014Baby+ Finding corpus tools difficult? #LancsBox is child’s play.😁

More 13, 000 occurrences of 'like' per million words (11 million word spoken corpus) in BNC2014 . Of course, not all will be to mark a pause or gain time but I suspect a number are. Just shows the absurdity of trying to ban something rather than understand form and function.

A peek into the most frequent words in the CFIE sub-corpus, a future component in the written BNC2014 corpus by Vaclav Brezina at the High Quality Financial Reporting Narratives workshop at the Work Foundation

Submitting my book manuscript in less than a month. Feels like I'm preparing my PhD thesis for submission all over again! This book is the last stage of what has been six years of work on the Spoken BNC2014 project.

Two of this year's pre-conference workshops on Monday 22nd are from Lancaster: - The 3rd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-3) - Building and analysing a large general corpus: exploring the Written BNC2014 with #LancsBox 💻

It’s time for written BNC2014 workshop led by Vaclav Brezina ! @TonyMcEnery kicks off the workshop with a precious conversation video with Geoffrey Leech and a brief introduction! #CL2019 CASS

First day of my first #CLconf2019 - what better way to start things off than with some #LancsBox and BNC2014 Baby 🎉 Vaclav Brezina leads a discussion on challenges of corpus building before we start the practical workshop! 💻

@TonyMcEnery wrapping up a great workshop by Vaclav Brezina on the BNC2014 baby #ICL2019 in Cardiff

Today I'm co-organising the 3rd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-3) and CorCenCC workshops, but I'd also like to be able to attend several of the others on topic modelling, BNC2014, CMLC-7, Cambridge Learner Corpus, Visualisation using R. #CLconf2019

Yay! Our paper on the Spoken BNC2014 is one of IJCL’s “most read this month” 😀 Dr Claire Dembry Andrew Hardie Vaclav Brezina @TonyMcEnery

New article published online (open access!) in Register Studies: "Functional variation in the Spoken BNC2014 and the potential for register analysis", with Vaclav Brezina, @TonyMcEnery, Dr Abi Hawtin, Andrew Hardie & Dr Claire Dembry. jbe-platform.com/content/journa…

Thanks BBC York for inviting me to talk about swearing with Carla Child today (without swearing once!). Some nice content here for #EnglishLanguage from corpus and #attitudes survey research. Available for 28 days (1:30-1:58 approx): bbc.in/2nUgyzt

So my book has a cover! And also a publication date: January 2020. Very excited! routledge.com/Overcoming-Cha…

Are you interested in how corpora can be used in sociolinguistics? Join the discussion on #CorpusMOOC this week. ⯈ A lecture on different approaches to variation ⯈ BNClab & CQPweb ⯈ Practical sociolinguistic exercises futurelearn.com/courses/corpus…

Thanks to the Spoken BNC2014, I think I may have found a cunning way to include the phrase "that's a load of old twaddle" in my #PhD thesis. Couldn't think of a better place for it! 🙃 #PhDlife #PhDchat

My book “Overcoming Challenges in Corpus Construction”, all about the new Spoken British National Corpus, is now published! 😀 Ebook version available for immediate download, hardback ships after 24th Jan. routledge.com/Overcoming-Cha…

Author copies of my BNC book arrived today. Proud moment to see my work in print! 😃

The 11-million-word Spoken British National Corpus 2014 is now available in Sketch Engine. bit.ly/2spup2u Large spoken corpora are extremely demanding to build and we are excited at this new addition to our portfolio. #corpus #corpuslinguistics #bnc #bnc2014 BNC2014