Dear all,
The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciencehttps://cass.lancs.ac.uk/, Lancaster University (CASS) is happy to announce the release of a new version of the free software tool for the analysis of corpora of the size of up to billions of words. #LancsBox X, CASS's flagship software tool available for free, reflects the most recent developments in the field and offers its users a comprehensive solution for the analysis of language data.
The new version is freely downloadable from: https://lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk
New features include:
-n-grams and skip-grams with large corpora
-key n-grams and skip-grams
- new visualizations now including rich word clouds
- tag corpora (pos, headword, semantic category, syntactic dependency etc.) and download them to your computer
- lighting fast complex searches (ADJECTIVE NOUN VERB ADVERB) and table sorting
Read more about these innovations at a CASS blogpost: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/casss-innovation-programme-new-features-in-lancbox-...
The new version comes with the British National Corpus 2014https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/bnc2014, also developed at CASS, (we recommend deleting and re-downloading the BNC2014 if you have used a previous version).
Also learn about CASS's extensive research programme of corpus methodology and its innovative applications to social science: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/cass-projects
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