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    Some corpora of English for linguistic research

    Gregory Garretson
    Department of English, Uppsala University

    Many corpora of English have been compiled over the years. Some of these are freely
    available, while others require special permission. Some are linked to an online interface,
    while others must be downloaded and searched with corpus tools. This document is meant
    to give you some ideas for how to find material for your corpus study.

    Places to start
    Two good websites with several corpora each are the BYU corpus website and the CQPweb
    website. Both have powerful interfaces, though they allow you to do different things:
    https://www.english-corpora.org
    à For this, try the Uppsala University subscription link:
    http://ezproxy.its.uu.se/login?url=http://corpus.byu.edu
    https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk
    CQPweb has many different corpora, but some are password-protected. If there is a corpus
    there you are interested in but don’t have access to (e.g. ARCHER), let us know and we can
    see if it’s possible to get access. But first, you will need to create a free account on the site.
    There are also many corpora available locally in the department. See the handout “What is
    corpus linguistics?” for a description of these.
    What follows is a list of a few selected corpora in different categories.

    Corpora of present-day English:

    The British National Corpus (BNC)


    BYU interface: https://www.english-corpora.org/bnc
    CQP interface: http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk

    The British National Corpus 2014 (BNC2014)


    http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/bnc2014 (only spoken part finished; requires application)

    The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)


    https://www.english-corpora.org/coca

    The International Corpus of English, including the ICE-GB Corpus


    (available from the department; look in \\user.uu.se\epit\stud_lib\Wsicame\ICE)
    info: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/ice.htm

    Fairly recent (present-day) historical corpora

    The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)


    https://www.english-corpora.org/coha

    The TIME Magazine Corpus


    https://www.english-corpora.org/time

    The Brown Family of corpora


    (available from the department)
    info: http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/BROWN

    Older historical corpora:

    The Old Bailey Corpus


    http://www.uni-giessen.de/oldbaileycorpus

    The ARCHER corpus (requires permission)


    https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/archer_untagged
    info: http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/research/projects/archer

    The Corpus of English Dialogues (CED)


    https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/engdia
    info: http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/CED/index.html

    The Helsinki corpus


    (available from the department)
    info: http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/HelsinkiCorpus

    Corpora of learner English

    The ULEC corpus (high-school student writing) and The USE Corpus
    (university student writing)
    (available from the department)

    The ICLE corpora


    (available from the department, only in rooms 9-1070 and 9-1064)
    info: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-cecl-icle.html

    Corpora of academic speech or writing (professional or student)

    MICASE (spoken):
    https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/corpus/corpus?c=micase;page=simple

    MICUSP (written): http://eli-corpus.lsa.umich.edu

    Corpus of Research Articles 2007: http://rcpce.engl.polyu.edu.hk/RACorpus

    Concordancers (search tools)


    For corpora that you search on your own computer (i.e. not via a Web interface), you have
    access to WordSmith Tools if you work on campus. If you do not plan to work on campus,
    you might try AntConc, which is similar, almost as powerful, and free:
    http://www.laurenceanthony.net/antconc_index.html

    Other resources
    For information on other corpora and tools, this website contains a wealth of information:
    http://tiny.cc/corpora
    (the same as http://martinweisser.org/corpora_site/CBLLinks.html )
    To find lists of corpora on that site, look in the menu under:
    CBL Links à Corpora Section
    To find lists of corpus tools on that site, look in the menu under:
    CBL Links à Software Section

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