Evolutionary Changes to
Exploring Words and Phrases from the British National Corpus*

4 December 2003
New "Phrases in English" site launched at http://pie.usna.edu/.  Development and update of this site has been abandoned. The new site has a much larger database and resides on a faster, more robust server.  It also offers features unavailable on this site, such as a random set of concordances of a given phrase from the BNC.  Since the new site is not accessible to all, the site will eventually become a proxy server for the new site.
30 October 2003
"Getting Started" tutorial and "BNC Parts of Speech Tags" pages completed.
"Explore N-Grams" and "Explore Phrase-Frames": word-form and POS filter fields now show color codes when text is entered
; various cosmetic changes to query and results pages.
23 October 2003
Problem with query for forms containing apostrophe (e.g. 's, n't) and underscore (e.g. of_course, a_la) resolved.
"Save" function on "Explore N-Grams" and "Explore Phrase-Frames" results pages now works properly (available for Internet Explorer only; may not function correctly if your security settings do not permit it; see troubleshooting suggestions). Navigation and utility buttons downsized.
21 October 2003
Navigation bar added to all pages.
13 October 2003
"Getting Started" tutorial grows
"Explore N-Grams" and "Explore Phrase-Frames" now Netscape 7.0 compatible (and possibly compatible with 6)
Remaining Netscape issues: Results page "Previous / Next" buttons remain grayed out even if results are available; clickable areas lack hand cursor.
9 October 2003
Rudimentary tutorial premières
Some FAQ items fleshed out