Ordinary voices and extraordinary thoughts

Article Abstract:

Two dictionary publishers, Oxford University Press and Longman, who were previously rivals, began in 1991 to compile a pilot corpus and the intention now is to produce the British National Corpus. This will contain 100 million words of text. These publishers have the support of computing departments at Oxford and Lancaster universities. The cost of the complete operation will be around 1.2 million pounds sterling. The Department of Trade and Industry and the Science and Engineering Research Council are to pay one-half. Lexicographers of the future will thus be able to call up thousands of different usages of the same words.

Lexicography, Vocabulary

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Biblical code cracker

Article Abstract:

Professor of computer science at the Australian National University Brendan McKay has spent the best part of two years trying to determine whether there is anything of scientific interest in the secret Bible codes. McKay, working in collaboration with three professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has disproved the claim by a group of Israelis that the hook of Genesis contains secret messages foretelling the future. McKay has shown that the results obtained by professor of mathematics Eliyahu Rips and his team were influenced by the data they chose to use.

Mathematicians, Codes, McKay, Brendan

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The working class

Article Abstract:

Derek Portwood, professor of work-based learning at Middlesex University, England, argues that work-based learning is equivalent to academic learning and, as such, is amenable to academic recognition. The number of people registered with Middlesex's National Centre for Work Based Learning Partnerships is expected to rise from 450 in 1997 to 1,000 in 1998. Middlesex staff evaluate the relevant knowledge and skills that students possess and help them plan a programme to bring them up to certificate, degree, masters or PhD standard.

Standards, Services, Curricula, Business and education, Industry and education, Degrees, Academic, Academic degrees, Alternative education, Middlesex University

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