Corpora: From magnetic tape to web access Knut Hofland, [e-mail], icame.uib.no/history/poster.ppt UNIFOB Aksis, Bergen, Norway

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CorporaFrom magnetic tape to web accessKnut
Hofland, hofland_at_uib.no, icame.uib.no/history/post
er.pptUNIFOB Aksis, Bergen, Norway
Brown Corpus was made from 1961-64 12.02.1977
ICAME founded in Oslo 29-30.03.1979 First ICAME
conference in Bergen 1977-79 ICAME News started
March 1978 Converted the Brown Corpus from
original punched card format to a more readable
format and corrected errors found during the
tagging of the corpus (from 1971-78). RT
THE FULTON COUNTY GRAND JURY SAID FRIDAY AN
INVESTIGATION 0010E1A01 OF ATLANTAAS RECENT
PRIMARY ELECTION PRODUCED QNO EVIDENCEU TH
0020E1A01 AT ANY IRREGULARITIES TOOK PLACE.
RT THE JURY FURTHER SAID IN TER
0030E1A01 M-END PRESENTMENTS THAT THE CITY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WHICH HAD OVE
0040E1A01 R-ALL CHARGE OF THE ELECTION,
QDESERVES THE PRAISE AND THANKS OF THE
0050E1A01 CITY OF ATLANTAU FOR THE MANNER IN
WHICH THE ELECTION WAS CONDUCT 0060E1A01 ED.
RT THE SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER TERM JURY HAD
BEEN CHARGED BY FUL 0070E1A01 TON SUPERIOR
COURT JUDGE DURWOOD PYE TO INVESTIGATE
REPORTS OF PO 0080E1A01 SSIBLE QIRREGULARITIES
U IN THE HARD-FOUGHT PRIMARY WHICH WAS WON B
0090E1A01 Y MAYOR-NOMINATE IVAN ALLEN JR..
RT QONLY A RELATIVE HAND 0100E1A01 A01
0010 1 The Fulton County Grand Jury said
Friday an investigation A01 0020 1 of
Atlanta's recent primary election produced "no
evidence" A01 0020 9 that any
irregularities took place. A01 0030 5
The jury further said in term-end presentments
that A01 0040 3 the City Executive
Committee, which had over-all charge A01 0050
2 of the election, "deserves the praise and
thanks of A01 0050 11 the City of Atlanta"
for the manner in which the election A01 0060 11
was conducted. A01 0070 1 The
September-October term jury had been charged
A01 0070 9 by Fulton Superior Court Judge
Durwood Pye to investigate A01 0080 8 reports
of possible "irregularities" in the hard-fought
A01 0090 6 primary which was won by
Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen A01 0100 5
Jr. LOB Corpus was finished in Oslo/Bergen in
1979. Concordances were made to both Brown and
LOB Corpus. The texts and concordances were
distributed on magnetic tape and microfiche. One
fiche 207 pages (each with 72 lines with 132
columns). The LOB concordance contained frequency
counts from the Brown Corpus. The LOB KWIC used
100 fiches. London-Lund corpus was distributed on
tape.

• Development of computers 1970-2009

1970s Mainframe computers Univac, IBM, ICL 1971
Floppy disk (diskette) 1975 Altair 8800 Personal
computer 1976 Apple I 1977 Apple II 1978
VisiCalc, spreadsheet 1979 WordStar, word
processing software 1980 Seagate 5.25 5 MB hard
disk 1981 IBM PC (4.77 MHz, 16/64 kB RAM, 160 kB
5.25 diskette, MS-DOS, CGA) 1982 Commodore
64 1983 IBM PC XT (128 kB RAM, 10 MB HD, 360 kB
diskette) 1983 Apple Lisa, first GUI
interface 1984 Apple Macintosh (128 kB, 400 kB
3.5 diskette) 1984 First HP Laserprinter (Apple
LaserWriter PS 1985) 1984 IBM PC AT (286 6-10
MHz, 20 MB HD, 256kB RAM, 1.2 MB diskette,
EGA) 1984 MS/DOS 3.1 1985 Windows 1 1985 Philips
CM-100 CD-ROM (Apple 1988) 1987 PS/2 (386 8-20
MHz, 640 kB RAM, 1,44 MB 3.5, 20-70 MB HD,
VGA) 1990 World Wide Web, text version 1990
Typical PC 486 25 MHz, 4 MB RAM, 150 MB HD 1992
Windows 3.1 1993 Mosaic graphic web client 1994
MS/DOS 6.0 1995 Windows 95 1997 Typical PC
Pentium II 233 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 4 GB disk 2001
Windows XP 2007 Windows Vista 2009 Portable PC
Dual Core 2.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 400 GB HD 2009
Desktop PC Quad Core 2.6 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 1000 GB
HD
Moores law transistor count doubling every two
year
1981 London-Lund KWIC concordance available on
tape. 1982-1985 POS-tagging of LOB in Lancaster
and Bergen (CLAWS1, Constituent Likelihood
Automatic Word-tagging System). Word list and
suffix list for look-up were based on the tagged
Brown Corpus. Text and concordance available on
tape. 1987 Melbourne-Surrey Corpus available
(100K word newspaper text). ICAME News -gt
Journal. A version of Brown Corpus indexed by the
MS-DOS program WordCruncher was made by Randall
L. Jones from Brigham Young University (11 MB
including index files). The index was so
efficient that the program could be used on a
standard IBM PC XT/AT. Distribution on diskettes
started. Kolhapur Corpus (Indian English) and
Lancaster Spoken English corpus were added to the
collection. A mail-based infoserver was started
(FAFSRV at NOBERGEN, EARN/BITNET). 1990
Polytechnic of Wales Corpus. 1992 Lancaster
Parsed Corpus, Corpora list started. FTP
info-server. Gopher server in 1993. ICAME CD-ROM
collection, version 1. Contained Brown, LOB,
Kolhapur, London_Lund and Helsinki Corpora, all
indexed by WordCruncher. Macintosh/Unix version
of the texts. Texts also indexed by MS-DOS
program TA CT.
WordCruncher logo
1980 5 MB, 2009 1000 000 MB
1995 Newdigate newsletters, ICAME web-site, 900
members on Corpora list 2000 ICAME CD-ROM,
version 2, COLT CD-ROM with sound files, Internet
search for holders of the CD-ROM to the main
corpora. 2009 More than 3000 members on the
Corpora list.
Some statistics
Content of ICAME CD, version 2
Future More material, new CD/DVD More corpora
searchable on Internet Part of CLARIN
(www.clarin.eu)