Rita Juknevičienė

Vilnius University, Lithuania

About the workshop presenter

↗️ Assoc. Prof. Dr Rita Juknevičienė is a teacher and researcher at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Vilnius University.

↗️ Her research interests include lexical and grammatical features of L2 English, corpus-driven phraseology, language testing and assessment.

↗️ She has been involved in projects related to the compilation and analysis of learner corpora and the development and validation of tests of foreign languages.

↗️ She is also a member of the RELANG project of the Council of Europe, promoting a valid and reliable linking of language tests to the CEFR.

Conference workshop Exploring the BNC2014 on LancsBox X: New Opportunities for Research

↗️ The new version of the British National Corpus compiled by Lancaster University and Cambridge University Press (henceforth: BNC2014) is a successor to the original BNC that represents spoken and written English of the 1990s, and that is widely used for data mining in linguistic research.

↗️ The BNC2014 covers contemporary British English up to the 2020s, with the bulk of texts sampled from 2014, hence the title. The new corpus is freely available with the corpus analysis tool LancsBox, version X. The workshop will demonstrate a range of queries that could be run on the program LancsBox X to explore British English represented by the BNC2014.

↗️ The workshop will also briefly introduce the participants to such functionalities of LancsBox X that allow researchers to compile and analyse any other corpora of English or any other language.