This website is maintained by Michael Barlow. I would appreciate hearing about new links and links listed here that are no longer active. Please send email to barlow@ruf.rice.edu. I would also like to solicit your help in building up the non-English corpus listings. Please let me know of any suitable corpora. I am slowly compiling a bibliographic reference section that focusses on Corpus Linguistics and the use of corpora in language teaching. Suggestions for the bibliography and links to actual papers are welcome.
See also the Parallel Corpora page
Oxford Text Archive WEB site OTA FTP FTP site. (Mirror ftp site for North America -- OTA.) Good starting point. Includes British novels, Dickens, Trollope, etc. The Susanne Corpus is in this archive in the directory pub/ota/public/susanne. For background info, see Susanne. OED Online
Project
Gutenberg: (in English)
Some literary works such as "Moby Dick"
and "Through the Looking Glass" are available electronically from
Project Gutenberg.
Corpus of Spoken, Professional American-English The corpus is available commercially from Athelstan. There is a 50,000 word sample available online.
The Bookstack An experimental index to online books.
The Fairie Queene and other works by Edmund Spenser
British National Corpus. A large (100 million words) corpus of modern English (1990's). BNC World Edition is now available. See also BNC Indexer
International Corpus of English
COBUILD offers access to a large corpus for a fee. Also has a free demo.
Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. CD-ROM. Written New Zealand English is also included. Corpus-Manager@vuw.ac.nz
Penn-Helsinki Corpus of Middle English
Lampeter Corpus Early Modern English
ICAME, Bergen. This is the ftp site. ICAME also produces an excellent CD-ROM containing Brown, LOB, London-Lund, and Helsinki corpora among others. Also the home of Corpora news-list. Also a web-site.
The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language
Corpus of Written British Creole
The TRAINS Spoken Dialogue Corpus
CCAT Archive Gopher site at U. Penn. A good site for classical, historical, and religious texts.
Voice of America News (Gopher)
CBC Canadian broadcasting. Includes sound files.
Time and Time Daily
Canterbury Tales Project An electronic Chaucer from Cambridge University Press.
News in French (Gopher) MOVED ??
Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
Project Gutenberg (German texts)
German newspapers -- tagged corpus with syntactic structure annotated.
German News: subscribe by sending an e-mail request to germnews@vm.gmd.de. Today's news in German
Italian literature (LiberLiber)
Tony Berber Sardinha. The files disk1.taz disk2.taz are available in the directory ~ftp/pub/linguistics. The file cbmp.txt contains background information on the corpus. tony1@liverpool.ac.uk Other papers and useful info
Russian foreign affairs articles I have not had much luck with this.
Vesti: A Canadian-Russian Newspaper.
Russian word list gopher.
Project Runeberg (Scandinavian classics)
Spanish Syntax Research Group University of Santiago de Compostela. Information about ARTHUS (1.5 million words in modern Spanish) and syntactic database (BDS, 160.000 analysed clauses of ARTHUS). In progress: a medieval and classic Spanish corpus ("ARTHUS Medieval y Clasico).
"Maria" corpus Acquisition of Spanish.
Mexican Newspapers: El Nacional, La Jornada, etc.
Telephone speech corpus: Alpha-numeric corpus
ICLE - Brazilian Portuguese Sub-Corpus
IMS Stuttgart (Penn Treebank) search -- OLD LINK??
University of Michigan Middle English Collection
Michigan Early Modern English Materials
Blake, Wordsworth, etc.Web concordance
Web-based analysis of Gutenberg texts by Ron Reck. See also Corpus Access at the University of Essex.
VISL Project Denmark. English and German corpora can be searched.
British National Corpus Simple search
French Stop list from Jean.Veronis@lpl.univ-aix.fr
Stop lists and frequency lists for English, French and German. From Patrice Bonhomme.
Zipped file of n-grams from the Brown Corpus
Mike Scott's page contains several English wordlists.
MonoConc Pro. Commercial Windows concordance program (produced by me). See the Athelstan site.
MonoConc, a Mac/Windows concordance program that allows sorts (2R,1R,2L,1L) and provides simple frequency information. For information on availability, see MonoConc.
ParaConc, a Mac/Windows concordance program for parallel texts. A version is available for free for research purposes (under license). For other uses, the single user price is $49.95. See ParaConc.
Conc, a Mac concordance program, is available via ftp from SIL. Also available by anonymous-ftp from clr.nmsu.edu (/clr.nmsu.edu:/CLR/tools/concordances).
Indiana University LETRS Conc QuickGuide.
Free Text, a Mac concordance program, should be available from the U. of Michigan site. Also available from ftp://nora.hd.uib.no/pub/mac/
HUM, developed by William Tuthill, is available by anonymous-ftp from clr.nmsu.edu (/clr.nmsu.edu:/CLR/tools/concordances).
Perl Dan Melamed's perl tools
Tact. Available via ftp from University of Toronto (epas.utoronto.ca).
Indiana University LETRS TACT QuickGuide
World Wide Web implementation of TACT -- TACTWeb.
"TACTweb connects TACT to the World Wide Web-making a TACT TDB
database accessible to the entire WWW community." See also Elisabeth Burr's site.
LEXA Corpus processing Software version 6 (for DOS) is available via ftp. This is a suite of programs for tagging, lemmatization, word frequency counts, etc.
TextAnalyst Commercial software that produces a semantic network on the basis of text input. The company, Megaputer also produces a data mining tool PolyAnalyst.
Lexical Freenet Web-based thesaurus
ShoeBox Fieldwork oriented program. Information available from SIL.
VisualText A suite of commercial text analysis tools.
Word Cruncher Info available from WPT
WordSmith Mike Scott's WordSmith page.
Paai's text utilities: A set of utilities consisting of unix-scripts and c-programs for frequency-counts and lexical cohesion.
TOSCA/LOB tagger for DOS. Downloadable.
Rank Xerox in Grenoble have an interesting site. It is possible to enter text in French, English, German etc. and get it tagged.
AMALGAM Email tagging, conversion of tagsets, ...
AUTASYS by Alex Chengyu Fang at UCL.
SemanTag A variant of Brill's Tagger??
TreeTagger Language-independent HMM tagger. Parameter files for English, French, German.
CRATER report. Discussion of a modified version of the Xerox Tagger.
Tagger overview by Linda Van Guilder
The Corpus Linguistics Group at the University of Birmingham has an Experimental email tagger-QTAG Texts can be sent via email to tagger@clg.bham.ac.uk
The (LOB) CLAWS1 tag set
CoreLex -- a tagset and database for semantic tagging based on WordNet
Corpus Linguistics : Investigating Language Structure and Use Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad, Randi Reppen
An Introduction to Corpus LinguisticsGraeme Kennedy
Computer Corpus Lexicography Vincent B Y Ooi. Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics.
Corpus Linguistics Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson. Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics.
Language and Computers: A Practical Introduction to the Computer Analysis of Language. Geoff Barnbrook. Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics.
Pattern Grammar A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English. Susan Hunston and Gill Francis Studies in Corpus Linguistics 4
Patterns and Meanings Using corpora for English language research and teaching. Alan Partington. Studies in Corpus Linguistics 2
Statistics for Corpus Linguistics. Michael Oakes. Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics.
Terms in Context Jennifer Pearson. Studies in Corpus Linguistics 1
Text and Technology In honour of John Sinclair. Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli (eds.) John Benjamins.
Methods and Tools for Large-Scale Corpus Linguistics
Eugene Charniak: Statistical course
Elisabeth Burr: Korpuslinguistik course
Tony Berber Sardinha: Corpus Linguistics courses: 1998-1999; 2000
Mark Davies: History of the Spanish Language; Assignments and projects
Chris Brew: Statistical NLP; Probablistic modelling
Javier Perez-Guerra: English linguistics (written in Galician)
Bilge Say: Using Corpora for Language Research
Sabine Reich: Corpus course
References compiled at UCREL (Computational Linguistics)
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities.
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Louvain
CTI Centre for Modern Languages Based in Hull, England. Newsletter, language software guide, info on language teaching.
Oxford University Language Centre
UCREL Site Lancaster University, England
Alex gopher site
Alex allows users to find and retrieve the
full-text of documents on the Internet.
Annotation page at Upenn. Describes some 40 tools and formats for creating and managing linguistic annotations.
Athena Large e-text site
CHILDES Parent-child interactions.
Alex Chengyu Fang Page Alex's page contains info on his various corpus tools
Tim Johns Classroom Concordancing Page.
Collocations page
Concordancing page
Corpus Encoding Standards Coordinated by Nancy Ide
ECI/MCI Multilingual corpus information
European Language Resources Association ELRA catalogue
Human Languages Page at Willamette.
ICAME and Hong Liang Qiao's web-page
Index of electronic text projects
Literature in various languages. University of Virginia ETC. See also Le letterature del mondo
MATE Project Annotation of spoken corpora
Pittsburg U. Electronic Text project
SPIRE Text visualisation analysis
Survey of English Usage An interesting page.
Taglog project Logic-based Corpus Theory Development Environment.
WInter Web Internationalization Page. Multilingual WWW issues. MOVED ???
Send additions to Michael Barlow (barlow@ruf.rice.edu)