#LancsBox v. 4 and other brand-new corpus tools
Vaclav Brezina & Matt Timperley
CASS, Lancaster University
In this practical session and software demonstration, we briefly introduce three brand new software tools: #LancsBox, BNClab, and Lancaster Stats Tools online, all developed at Lancaster University. Following the recent debate in the field (e.g. McEnery & Hardie 2011; Kilgarriff 2012; Gries 2013; Lijffijt et al. 2014; Brezina & Meyerhoff 2014; Brezina et al. 2015; Gablasova et al. 2017) and responding to the challenges identified in the debate, we have developed software and tools that incorporate a number of existing analytical techniques and add new innovative methods that enable more efficient and sophisticated exploration of the data. These tools can be used by linguists, language teachers, translators, historians, sociologists, educators, and anyone interested in quantitative language analysis. They are free to use for non-commercial purposes. This practical session highlights innovative features of the new tools and focuses on practical demonstration of the new version of #LancsBox (v. 4).