The Editors: Lou Burnard is manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford University Computing Services. He is the author, with Guy Aston, of The BNC Handbook, and European editor of the Text Encoding Initiative's Guidelines for the Encoding of Machine Readable Texts. Tony McEnery is Reader at Lancaster University's Department of Linguistics and series editor of Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics. His publications include standard textbooks on Corpus Linguistics and several previous volumes on Teaching and Language Corpora and on Multilingual Corpora.