comparing a text with Bnc as reference corpus

198 views
Skip to first unread message

Sahar Yousaf

unread,
Mar 15, 2020, 3:11:20 PM3/15/20
to AntConc-Discussion
hello sir, i am new to your group .i am doing a corpus study by using antconc .its my first attempt and i am unable to understand the things.i wanted to ask u that how can i download Bnc as reference corpus in antconc .So, i could easily compare the study text with Bnc as benchmark. plz plz plz help me.

JFlorian

unread,
Mar 16, 2020, 7:40:36 AM3/16/20
to ant...@googlegroups.com

Laurence Anthony

unread,
Mar 16, 2020, 10:17:47 AM3/16/20
to ant...@googlegroups.com
Hi Sahar,

The easiest way is to download the BNC reference wordlist that I provide on the AntConc homepage. Load that into the AntConc via the keyword tool preferences and then you can use it as a benchmark.
 
I hope that helps!

Laurence.


On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 20:40, JFlorian <judith.a....@gmail.com> wrote:

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AntConc-Discussion" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to antconc+u...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/antconc/CACdAd5ARMi8chHE%3DMAopM7nitU%2B1NidGTzOsUDKxujZQMD2_jQ%40mail.gmail.com.

Sahar Yousaf

unread,
Mar 16, 2020, 1:15:38 PM3/16/20
to ant...@googlegroups.com
Thanks alot sir. It helped me. U r just great. 👍😊

Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages