Social:List of text corpora

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Text corpora (singular: text corpus) are large and structured sets of texts, which have been systematically collected. Text corpora are used by corpus linguists and within other branches of linguistics for statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, finding patterns of language use, investigating language change and variation, and teaching language proficiency.[1]

English language

European languages

Slavic

East Slavic

South Slavic

West Slavic

German

Middle Eastern Languages

Devanagari

East Asian Languages

South Asian Languages

African languages

Parallel corpora of diverse languages

  • Chinese/English Political Interpreting Corpus (CEPIC) [28][29] consists of transcripts of speeches delivered by top political figures from Hong Kong, Beijing, Washington DC and London, as well as their translated/interpreted texts. Developed by Jun Pan and HKBU Library.
  • Europarl Corpus - proceedings of the European Parliament from 1996 to 2012
  • EUR-Lex corpus - collection of all official languages of the European Union, created from the EUR-Lex database[30]
  • OPUS: Open source Parallel Corpus in many many languages[31]
  • Tatoeba A parallel corpus which contains over 8.9 million sentences in multiple languages; 107 languages have more than 1,000 sentences each; a further 81 languages have from 100 to 1,000 sentences each.[32]
  • NTU-Multilingual Corpus in 7 languages (ara, eng, ind, jpn, kor, mcn, vie)[33] (legacy repo)
  • SeedLing corpus - A Seed Corpus for the Human Language Project with 1000+ languages from various sources.[34]
  • GRALIS parallel texts for various Slavic languages, compiled by the institute for Slavic languages at Graz University (Branko Tošović et al.)
  • The ACTRES Parallel Corpus (P-ACTRES 2.0) is a bidirectional English-Spanish corpus consisting of original texts in one language and their translation into the other. P-ACTRES 2.0 contains over 6 million words considering both directions together.[35]

Comparable Corpora

  • Corpus of Political Speeches contains four collections of political speeches in English and Chinese from The Corpus of U.S. Presidential Speeches (1789–2015), The Corpus of Policy Address by Hong Kong Governors (1984–1996) and Hong Kong Chief Executives (1997–2014), The Corpus of Speeches given on New Year's days and Double Tenth days by Taiwan Presidents (1978–2014), and The Corpus of Report on the Work of the Government by Premiers of the People's Republic of China (1984–2013). Developed by HKBU Library.
  • WaCky - The Web-As-Corpus Kool Yinitiative Web as Corpus (eng, fre, deu, ita)
  • Disambiguating Similar Language Corpora Collection (DSLCC)[36] (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Indonesian, Malay, Czech, Slovak, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Peninsular Spanish, Argentine Spanish)
  • Wikipedia Comparable Corpora(registration required) when (41 million aligned Wikipedia articles for 253 language pairs)
  • The TenTen Corpus Family – comparable web corpora of target size 10 billion words. These corpora are available in the corpus management system Sketch Engine, currently, there exist TenTen corpora for more than 30 languages (such as English TenTen corpus,[37] Arabic TenTen corpus,[38] Spanish TenTen corpus,[39] Russian Tenten corpus,[40][41]). The overview of existing TenTen corpora can be found at https://www.sketchengine.co.uk/documentation/tenten-corpora/
  • Timestamped JSI web corpora – web corpora of news articles crawled from a list of RSS feeds. Newsfeed corpora are being prepared in the framework of the project implemented by the Jožef Stefan Institute at Slovenian scientific research institute.[42] and published in Sketch Engine. More information about the project is on the project websites.

L2 (English) Corpora

  • Cambridge Learner Corpus[43]
  • Corpus of Academic Written and Spoken English (CAWSE),[44] a collection of Chinese students’ English language samples in academic settings. Freely downloadable online.  
  • English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings (ELFA),[45] an academic ELF corpus.[46][47]
  • International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE),[48] a corpus of learner written English.
  • Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI),[49] a corpus of learner spoken English.
  • Trinity Lancaster Corpus, one of the largest corpus of L2 spoken English.[50][51]
  • University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute Corpus (PELIC)[52]
  • Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE),[53] an ELF corpus.[46]

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