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Part 1 Using corpora for language research: corpora are becomingmainstream, Jan Svartvik; from central embedding to corpus linguistics,Geoffrey Sampson; sipping a cocktail of corpora, Randolph Quirk andGabriele Stein; corpora, databases and the organization of linguisticdata, Gerry Knowles. Part 2 Corpus-based language studies: towards aunified account of the syntax and semantics of GET, Stig Johansson andSigne Oksefjell; complement clauses in English, Sidney Greenbaum et al;methofologies for studying a corpus of doctor-patient interaction,Jenny Thomas and Andrew Wilson; using a corpus for stylistics research- speech and throught presentation, Mick Short et al. Part 3Applications of corpus-based research to speech and languagetechnology: a probablistic LR parser of part-of-speech and punctuationlabels, Ted Briscoe and John Carroll; machine learning from corpusresources for speech and handwriting recognition, Eric Atwell; therobust tagging of unrestricted text - the BNC experience, RogerGarside; template analysis - bridging the gap between grammar and thelexicon, Steve Fligelstone et al. Part 4 Wider applications ofcorpus-based research: sentence and word alignment in the CRATERProject, Tony McEnery and Michael Oakes; English corpus linguistics andthe foreign language teaching syllabus, Dieter Mindt; do corpora have arole in language assessment?, Charles Alderson; computer lexicography -the importance of representativeness in relation to frequency, DellaSummers. Appendix: Geoffrey N. Leech - academic honours andpublications.