Glossary of terms
For grammatical terms such as NP (noun phrase) see the TOSCA/ICE Grammar and (for explanation) the .
AHDS | Arts and Humanities Data Service | |
AHRB | Arts and Humanities Research Board | |
AI | Artificial Intelligence | |
ATALA | Association pour le Traitment Automatique des Langues (French Linguistic Association) | |
ATV | Associated Television | |
BNC | British National Corpus | |
BROWN | Brown University (corpus) | |
BUFVC | British Universities Film and Video Council | |
CBSRCs | Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centres | |
CD-ROM | Compact Disk-Read Only Memory | |
CGEL | Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (book) | |
CRC | Communication Research Centre | |
DCC | Digital Curation Centre | |
DCPSE | Diachronic Corpus of Present Day Spoken English | |
DES | Dept for Education and Science (as was) | |
DGfS | Deutsche Gesellschaft f眉r Sprachwissenschaft (German Linguistic Society) | |
DOC | MS Word Document (file format) | |
DSIR | Department of Scientific and Industrial Research | |
DSL | Defence Services Limited | |
ELL | English Language & Linguistics (journal) | |
ERDO | European Research and Development Office (香港六合彩) | |
ESDS | Economic and Social Data Service | |
ESPRIT | EU funding programme | |
ESRC | Economic and Social Research Council | |
FAQ | Frequently Asked Question | |
FE | Further Education | |
FLOB | Freiburg Lancaster Oslo Bergen (corpus) | |
FROWN | Freiburg-Brown (corpus) | |
FTF | Fuzzy Tree Fragment | |
GB | Gigabyte, Great Britain | |
GBP | Great Britain Pound | |
GCE | Grammar of Contemporary English (book) | |
HE | Higher Education | |
HEI | Higher Education Institution | |
HMSO | Her Majesty's Stationery Office | |
HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language | |
IBM | International Business Machines (corporation) | |
ICAME | International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English | |
ICE | International Corpus of English (Corpus collection) | |
ICECUP | ICE Corpus Utility Program | |
ICE-GB | British Component of the International Corpus of English (corpus) | |
IGE | Internet Grammar of English | |
ISBN | International Standard Book Number | |
ITT | International Telephone and Telegraph (Corporation) | |
JANET | Joint Academic Network | |
JISC | Joint Information Systems Committee | |
Kwd | Kiloword, i.e. 1000 words | |
LDB | Lexical Database | |
LLC | London-Lund Corpus (aka 'Survey Corpus') | |
LOB | Lancaster Oslo Bergen (Corpus) | |
ME | Middle English | |
MIMAS | Manchester Information and Associated Services | |
MP2,3 | MPEG layer 2, 3 (File Format) | |
MPEG | Moving Pictures Expert Group | |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology (US) | |
NVQ | National Vocational Qualification | |
OE | Old English | |
OSS | Open Source Software | |
OSTI | Office of Science and Technology Information | |
Page Description Format (Adobe file format) | ||
R&D | Research and Development | |
REC | Research Evaluation Committee | |
RTF | Rich Text Format (file format) | |
SARA | Search and Retrieval Application (for the BNC) | |
SBRC | Specialist Biomedical Research Centre | |
SOAS | School of Oriental and African Studies | |
SSRC | Social Science Research Council (predecessor to ESRC) | |
TASI | Technical Advisory Service for Images | |
TOSCA | TOSCA research group at Radbout University of Neijmegen | |
TXT | Text (file format) | |
University College London | ||
香港六合彩H | University College London Hospital | |
VAT | Value Added Tax | |
WE | World Englishes (journal) | |
Xaira | XML-Search and Retrieval Application (for BNC) | |
XML | Extensible Markup Language | |
χ² | Chi-squared (contingency correlation) statistic |
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