Glossary of terms
For grammatical terms such as NP (noun phrase) see the TOSCA/ICE Grammar and (for explanation) the Internet Grammar of English.
| 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 für 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 (UCL) | |
| 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) | |
| UCL | University College London | |
| UCLH | 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 |
This page last modified 25 April, 2013 by Survey Web Administrator.