Hello all
You might be interested in taking a look at this corpus of English as a Lingua Franca: details below.
James
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From: VOICE [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 May 2009 16:16
To: VOICE
Subject: VOICE 1.0 Online released!
Dear Friends of VOICE!
We are delighted to announce that the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus
of English (VOICE) 1.0 Online is now available as a free-of-charge resource for non-commercial research purposes.
VOICE 1.0 Online was created by Barbara Seidlhofer (project director) and Angelika Breiteneder, Theresa Klimpfinger, Stefan Majewski, Marie-Luise Pitzl (project researchers) at the University of Vienna.
VOICE 1.0 Online with (just over) one million words breaks new ground in
that it is the first corpus of English as lingua franca (ELF) to become publicly available.
In order to access VOICE 1.0 Online, visit the VOICE website at https://www.univie.ac.at/voice/page/corpus_availability and register for
your personal user account. After registration, you can log in and search or browse VOICE 1.0 Online.
The release of VOICE 1.0 Online is also accompanied by corpus documentation, statistics and detailed user instructions for the online search interface, all of which can be accessed at the VOICE website (http://www.univie.ac.at/voice).
Please let us have your feedback!
Best wishes,
Barbara Seidlhofer, Angelika Breiteneder, Theresa Klimpfinger, Stefan Majewski, Marie-Luise Pitzl
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VOICE project
project director: Prof. Dr. Barbara Seidlhofer
researchers: Mag. Angelika Breiteneder
Mag. Marie-Luise Pitzl
Mag. Theresa Klimpfinger researcher (IT): Stefan Majewski
Spitalgasse 2-4, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43-1-4277-42446
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