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> A – E |
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A – E
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F – J
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K – O
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P – T
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U – Z
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ACE
Bank
of English
BNC
BROWNCEECS
Christine |
CIC
CLCCOLT
CPSAECI |
ACE – Australian Corpus of English
| Org: |
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
| Time: |
1986 |
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Size:
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1 mio words (500×2000 words samples) |
| Contents: |
written and spoken, multigeneric (15 different genres) |
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Access:
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available on the ICAME
CD-ROM |
| Notes: |
modelled
on BROWN and LOB
for linguistic research |
Bank of English – Cobuild
| Org: |
Cobuild and the University of Birmingham, UK (John
Sinclair) |
| Time: |
majority of the material originates after 1990 |
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Size:
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415 mio words in Oct 2000 (still growing) |
| Contents: |
written and spoken; multigeneric ( |
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Access:
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CobuildDirect allows restricted access to the corpus
through a java or telnet interface; restricted concordance and collocation
queries are possible |
| Notes: |
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BNC
– British National Corpus
| Org: |
Lead by an industrial/academic consortium lead by
Oxford University Press |
| Time: |
completed in 1994; first release in 1995; second release
in 2001 |
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Size:
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over 100 mio words (4,125 texts) |
| Contents: |
multigeneric; 90% written and 10% spoken materials |
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Access:
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Licensed; Guest account available by using the SARA
Client at the
BNC Online Service or conduct
a simple search at the BNC. |
| Notes: |
SGML
Markup according to the TEI
guidelines; POS
tagging carried out with CLAWS |
BROWN
University Corpus
| Org: |
Brown University, Rhode Island,U.S. |
| Time: |
1960s |
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Size:
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ca. 1 mio words |
| Contents: |
American written English; 500 text samples of approximately
2,000 words distributed over 15 text categories |
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Access:
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available on the ICAME
CD-ROM |
| Notes: |
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CEECS
– Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler
| Org: |
University of Helsinki, Finnland |
| Time: |
1418-1680 |
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Size:
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approx. 450,000 words |
| Contents: |
click
here for a list of included texts |
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Access:
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available on the ICAME
CD-ROM |
| Notes: |
represents the non-copyrighted materials included
in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence |
CHRISTINE
Corpus
| Org: |
Geoffrey
Sampson, University of Essex, UK |
| Time: |
first distributed in August 2000 |
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Size:
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| Contents: |
spoken English, and particularly spontaneous,
informal spoken English |
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Access:
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freely available for download
here |
| Notes: |
see also SUSANNE |
name=”CIC”
CIC
– Cambridge International Corpus
| Org: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Time: |
ongoing |
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Size:
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300 mio words and expanding |
| Contents: |
multigeneric; written and spoken British and American
materials, learners’ English |
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Access:
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“Currently, it can only be used by authors and
writers working for Cambridge University Press and by members of
staff at UCLES.” |
| Notes: |
“Authors, editors and lexicographers use the
CIC
[…] when they are working on books for Cambridge University Press.” |
CLC
– Cambridge Learner Corpus
| Org: |
Cambridge University Press and UCLES. |
| Time: |
ongoing |
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Size:
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10 mio and expanding |
| Contents: |
anonymised exam scripts written by students taking
UCLES
English exams around the world |
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Access:
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“Currently, it can only be used by authors and
writers working for Cambridge University Press and by members of
staff at UCLES.” |
| Notes: |
It forms part of the Cambridge
International Corpus |
COLT
– Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language
| Org: |
University of Bergen, Norway |
| Time: |
material collected in 1993 |
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Size:
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500.000 words; Pilot-version consists of 151 texts |
| Contents: |
transcripts of spoken ‘London Teenage Language’ |
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Access:
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search in the pilot version is available; reg. users
can search the entire corpus online; COLT is available on the ICAME
CD-ROM |
| Notes: |
COLT is part of the BNC;
it is tagged for word classes |
CPSA
– Corpus of Spoken Professional American English
| Org: |
Contact: Michael
Barlow |
| Time: |
1994-1998 |
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Size:
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2 main sub-corpora, 1 mio words each |
| Contents: |
short interchanges by 400 speakers – professional activities broadly
tied to academics and politics |
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Access:
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Registered users only ($79 for the individual using
the tagged version) |
| Notes: |
The tagging was performed by Tony McEnery and Paul
Baker using the CLAWS programme at UCREL, Lancaster University; available both tagged and untagged |
ECI
Corpus
| Org: |
ELSNET |
| Time: |
materials collected between 1984 and 1993 |
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Size:
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Four different corpora ranging from 4 to 34 mio. words |
| Contents: |
German, French and Dutch newspaper texts; parallel
texts in English Spanish and French |
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Access:
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available on CD Rom for € 50 for research purposes
only |
| Notes: |
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