The British National Corpus 1994 to 2026

Martin Wynne, Megan Bushnell


Abstract
It was not possible to address the objections of reviewer #1 in an updated version of the paper. They seem to wish for a different paper about AI. Our brief was for "submit a poster on what has changed (and what is possibly about to change)" with respect to the BNC. The BNC is a historical corpus not an ongoing project. Reviewer #2 also notes a lack of novelty, but the same applies as above. We have added a little more on ’lessons learned’. Reviewer #3 asks about the availablility on CD of the corpus. This was phased out more than ten years ago, and it is already stated in the paper that the corpus is available for download from the Oxford Text Archive. Likewise, the TEI annotation of the corpus was frozen on release. This point is emphasised in a revision. The importance of the corpus as a TEI flagship project is noted. The typos reported by reviewer #3 have been corrected. Further footnotes with URLs, references to publications and language resources have been added.
Anthology ID:
2026.cmlc-1.11
Volume:
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
Editors:
Piotr Bański, Dawn Knight, Marc Kupietz, Andreas Witt, Alina Wróblewska
Venues:
CMLC | WS
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
76–77
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-cmlc-11
DOI:
10.63317/4yzqikwnh4b8
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Cite (ACL):
Martin Wynne and Megan Bushnell. 2026. The British National Corpus 1994 to 2026. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora, pages 76–77, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Cite (Informal):
The British National Corpus 1994 to 2026 (Wynne & Bushnell, CMLC 2026)
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