by

Stig Johansson

in collaboration with

Eric Atwell

Roger Garside

Geoffrey Leech

Norwegian Computing Centre

for the Humanities Bergen, 1986

Preface

The tagged LOB Corpus is the result of cooperation among researchers at the University of Lancaster, the University of Oslo, and the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen. The principal members of the research team have been:

Lancaster:
Geoffrey Leech and Roger Garside (project leaders)
Erie Atwell
lan Marshall

Oslo:
Stig Johansson (project leader)
Mette-Cathrine Jahr

Bergen:
Knut Hofland

The project was supported by the Social Science Research Council and the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities.
The section on computational aspects (4) is a revised version of: Geoffrey Leech Roger Garside, and Erie Atwell, 'The Automatic Grammatical Tagging of the LOB Corpus,' ICAME News 7 (1983), pp 13-33. The rest of the manual is the work of Stig Johansson, who could also draw on the information in Erie Atwell's Manual Pre-Edit Handbook (November 1981) and Manual Post-Edit Handbook (June 1982).

1 The LOB Corpus
2 Tagged versions

3 The LOB tag set

4 The LOB tagging suite

5 Differences between the original corpus and the tagged versions

6 Principles in post-editing
7 Problem areas

8 KWIC concordance

9 Developments
Notes
References
Appendix 1: General flowchart of Tag Assignment Program
Appendix 2: Tagging decisions of APPLYHYPHEN
Appendix 3: Tagging decisions of APPLYWIC
Appendix 4: List of tags

The following codes have been taken over from the original (untagged) LOB Corpus:

For a full list of *? codes (=uncoded character), see Johansson et al (1978). The word-class tags are surveyed in Section 3 and Appendix 4. As regards other coding conventions, see Sections 2.6 (special information in the vertical version) and 5.2 (sentence and paragraph division).