English reference corpora
Das DH-Lab stellt die hier aufgeführten English reference corpora nach Prof. Christian Mairs Eintritt in den Ruhestand zur Verfügung.
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- welches Korpus/welche Korpora benötigt werden
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- eine Bestätigung, dass verstanden wurde, dass es nicht erlaubt ist, die Daten an andere weiterzugeben
Available corpora
Brown family corpora
| American English | British English | Time Period |
|---|---|---|
| B-Brown | B-LOB | 1930s |
| Brown | LOB (Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen) Corpus | 1960s |
| Frown (Freiburg-Brown corpus) | FLOB | 1990s |
| Crown | CLOB | 2009 |
- family of corpora that can be used to study differences between the decades or to compare British and American English
- each contain one million words of written English divided into 2,000 word samples from various genres (e.g. press reportage, different kinds of fiction, government documents)
Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English
- one million words of written New Zealand English
- 2,000 word excerpts of various texts
- mirrors the structure of the Brown Corpus
- writings published between 1986 and 1990
- click here for the manual
Helsinki Corpus of English Texts
- about 1.6 million words
- divided into three main periods: Old, Middle and Early Modern English, each being subdivided into 100-year subperiods
- covers a range of genres, regional varieties and sociolinguistic variables (e.g. gender, age, education, social class)
- additional ‘satellite’ corpora of Early Scots and Early American English
- click here for the manual
ICE (International Corpus of English)
- a range of million-word corpora of different varieties of English, representing native and official-language national varieties of English
- aims at achieving comparability between the different corpora; each one is constructed from 500 (300 spoken and 200 written language) 2,000 word samples to produce a 1,000,000 word corpus for each variety of English covered
- available at the lab: Australia, Canada, East Africa, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, USA
- some ICE corpora may also be downloaded here
LLC (London-Lund Corpus)
- contains 100 texts of 500,000 words of spoken British English
- various genres (e.g. spontaneous dialogues, radio broadcasts)
- compiled 1975-1981 and 1985-1988
- click here for the manual