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CORPORA

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List of Corpora

• Alphabetical list.
• Historical Corpora
• Speech Corpora
• Languages other than English
• Available on-line
• Other text resources

For an interesting approach that uses the whole World Wide Web as a corpus, see http://www.webcorp.org.uk/.

Alphabetical list

• The Air Traffic Control Corpus
  
• ACL/DCI Association for Computational Linguistics Data Collection Initiative
• ATIS Air Travel Information System (Held by LDC)
• Bank of English
• BNC The British National Corpus
• The Brown Corpus 1 million word American English, standard reference
  
• CALLFRIEND Collection Unscripted telephone conversations in 12 languages and 3 dialects. (Held by LDC)
• CALLHOME Collection Unscripted telephone conversations in six languages (Held by LDC)
• CCAT Archive Classical, Literary, Historical and Religious Texts.
• The CHILDES Child Language Data Excahange Systems
  "Child language transcript data from scores of projects in dozens of languages"
• COLT The Bergen Corpus of London Teenager Language.
  
• Contemporary Portuguese Corpus
  Written (40 million words) and spoken (1,5 million words) texts from various text types.
• CRATER Multilingual Aligned Annotated Corpus (English, French, Spanish)
• CSLU Speech corpora collected/distributed by the Center for Spoken Language Understanding (Oregon, USA)
• CSPA Corpus of Spoken, Professional American-English.
  2 milj. words from 1994-98. Compiled by M. Barlow.
• CSR Continuous Speech Recognition Corpora(Held by LDC)
• English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus
• English Turkish Aligned Parallel Corpora
• Corpus of Estonian Written Texts
  1 million words. Texts from 1983-87, various text-types.
• European Corpus Initiative Multilingual Corpus I (ECI/MCI)
  
• The Gutenberg Project
  
• The Canadian Hansard proceedings in English and French.
  (Site where you type a word/phrase in one language and get the equivalent in the other).
• The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts
  
• Hypermedia Corpus of Japanese Conversation
  
• The International Corpus of English (ICE)
  
• The International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE)
  
• Japanese Speech Corpora of Major City Dialects (in Japanese)
• The Kolhapur Corpus
  
• Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts.
• The Lancaster Parsed Corpus
  
• The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus (external link)
  
• LDC Materials:
  • Text Corpora (external link)
  • Speech Corpora (external link)
• The LOB Corpus
  
• The London-Lund Corpus (LLC)
• The Market Research Corpus
  
• MARSEC: The Machine Readable Spoken English Corpus
  
• The Middle English Collection 40 titles, most of which are publicly-accessible.
  
• The Modern English Collection The Electronic Text Center at The University of Virginia. 1,144 titles including 3,000 manuscript and book illustrations, many of which are publicly accessible.
  
• Old English Corpus ".. contains all surviving OE material ..". Search on-line.
• The Complete Corpus of Old English.UVa. users only.
• The Oslo Corpus of Bosnian Texts Written. Appr. 1,6 million words from several different genres, mostly published in the 1990s.
• The PEDANT Project, Gothenborg, Sweden.
  Searching interface for searching language pairs of Swedish and English, German, or French. Texts mostly official EU documents and some presse releases from Volvo and Skanska.
• Penn Treebank (LDC)
  
• Regeringsforklaringen
  The yearly declaration of the Swedish government issued in Swedish, English, French, German, and Spanish.
  Searchable on-line.
• The Religious and Sacred Texts Page.
  Collection of various sacred and religious texts
• LDC)
• ShATR The Sheffield-ATR Multiple-Simultaneous Speaker Database. A Speech Science Corpus
  
• Corpus of Spoken Bulgarian collected by Krasimira Aleksova.
  "transcribed conversations in family contexts". Freely available.
• Corpus of Spoken Bulgarian collected by Cvetanka Nikolova.
  Transcribed conversations from 1975-1977. Approx. 50,000 words. Freely available.
• SPIDRE Corpus - Recorded Telephone Conversations
  
• The Susanne Corpus Parsed subset (130,000 words) of the Brown corpus.
• Swedish component of the Parole project. Appr. 10 million words. POS tagged. Seach online.
• TIMIT (English Speech Corpus)
  
• TIPSTER Information Retrieval Text Research Collection(LDC)
  
• United Nations Parallel Text Corpus (English, French, Spanish)(LDC)
  
• Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English (WSC)
  1 million words; monologue (scripted and unscripted) and dialogue (private and public).
• Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English (WWC)
  1 million words, structure parallel to Brown corpus.
• WHO bilingual documents
  Aligned texts English-French, English-Spanish

Historical Corpora

• The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts
  
• Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts.
• The Middle English Collection 40 titles, most of which are publicly-accessible.(external link)
  
• The Modern English Collection The Electronic Text Center at The University of Virginia. 1,144 titles including 3,000 manuscript and book illustrations, many of which are publicly accessible. (external link)
  
• Old English Corpus ".. contains all surviving OE material ..". Search on-line.
• The Complete Corpus of Old English.UVa. users only.(external link)

Speech Corpora

• ATCAir Traffic Control Corpus (Held by LDC)
  
• LDC)
• LDC)
• LDC)
• COLT The Bergen Corpus of London Teenager Language.
  
• CSPA Corpus of Spoken, Professional American-English.
  2 milj. words from 1994-98. Compiled by M. Barlow.
• CSLU Speech corpora collected/distributed by the Center for Spoken Language Understanding (Oregon, USA)
• LDC)
• Hypermedia Corpus of Japanese Conversation
  
• Japanese Speech Corpora of Major City Dialects (in Japanese)
• LDC Speech Corpora (external link)
• MARSEC: The Machine Readable Spoken English Corpus
  
• MLTS: Multilanguage Telephone Speech Corpus
  
• LDC)
• ShATR (The Sheffield-ATR Multiple-Simultaneous Speaker Database) A Speech Science Corpus
• SPIDRE Speaker Identification Corpus - Recorded Telephone Conversations (Held by LDC)
• Corpus of Spoken Bulgarian collected by Krasimira Aleksova.
  "transcribed conversations in family contexts". Freely available.
• Corpus of Spoken Bulgarian collected by Cvetanka Nikolova.
  Transcribed conversations from 1975-1977. Approx. 50,000 words. Freely available.
• TIMITAcoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpora (Held by LDC)
• Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English (WSC)
  1 million words; monologue (scripted and unscripted) and dialogue (private and public).

Languages other than English

• Corpus of Spoken Bulgarian collected by Krasimira Aleksova.
  "transcribed conversations in family contexts". Freely available.
• Corpus of Spoken Bulgarian collected by Cvetanka Nikolova.
  Transcribed conversations from 1975-1977. Approx. 50,000 words. Freely available.
• CRATER Multilingual Aligned Annotated Corpus (English, French, Spanish)
• Oslo Corpus of Bosnian Texts.
• Corpus of Estonian Written Texts
  1 million words. Texts from 1983-87, various text-types.
• The Canadian Hansard proceedings in English and French.
  (Site where you type a word/phrase in one language and get the equivalent in the other).
• Hypermedia Corpus of Japanese Conversation
  
• Japanese Speech Corpora of Major City Dialects (in Japanese)
• English- Norwegian Parallel Corpus
  Original texts and translations to and from both languages.
• Contemporary Portuguese Corpus
  Written (40 million words) and spoken (1,5 million words) texts from various text types.
• Swedish component of the Parole project. Appr. 10 million words. POS tagged.
• The PENDANT Project, Gothenborg, Sweden.
  Searching interface for searching language pairs of Swedish and English, German, or French. Texts mostly official EU documents and some presse releases from Volvo and Skanska.
• Regeringsforklaringen
  The yearly declaration of the Swedish government issued in Swedish, English, French, German, and Spanish.
  Searchable on-line.
• English Turkish Aligned Parallel Corpora
• CALLFRIEND Collection Unscripted telephone conversations in American English, Canadian French, Egyptian Arabic, Farsi, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Tamil, and Vietnamese. (Held by LDC)
• LDC)
• WHO bilingual documents
  Aligned texts English-French, English-Spanish

• free, directly available
  • BNC: Simple searches on-line. (limited number of hits, limited information about the hits)
  • Gutenberg Project Texts (via the W3-Corpora search engine)
  • Demo of CobuildDirect: On-line searches in a sub-component of the Bank of English (limited number of hits, limited information about the hits)
  • Colt Bergen Corpus of London Teenager Language
    Search in the pilot version.
  • The Canadian Hansard proceedings in English and French.
    (Site where you type a word/phrase in one language and get the equivalent in the other).
  • Old English Corpus ".. contains all surviving OE material ..".
  • Regeringsforklaringen
    The yearly declaration of the Swedish government issued in Swedish, English, French, German, and Spanish.
  • The Canadian Hansard proceedings in English and French.
    (Type a word/phrase in one language and get the equivalent in the other).
• free, registered users
  • Brown Corpus (guest account at LDC)
  • TIMIT speech corpus (guest account at LDC)
• registered users (subject to subscription/licence fee)
  • All Text and Speech corpora held by LDC.
  • CobuildDirect: On-line searches in a sub-component of the Bank of English
  • BNC: On-line searches with full access to the whole corpus (necessary to down-load the SARA client first)

  Text resources and centra

  Links to online text resources other than corpora. An extensive list can be found on the Project Gutenberg site (link here).
  • ATHENA
    Collections of texts free for non-commercial use. Much by Swiss and French authours.
  • Electronic Newsstand
    Magazines of many different kinds (not all available on-line).
  • The Electronic Text Center
    University of Virginia.
  • The English Server
    Arts and Humanities texts online. Arranged by topics.
  • Internet Corpora Index
    "online resources which may serve as corpora for psychologists and other scientists".
  • The Internet Public Library
    "the first public library of and for the Internet community"
  • KidPub
    Collection of stories written by "kids from all over the planet!"
  • On Media Directory
    Search by geographic location or media type.
  • Oxford Text Archive (OTA)
    "The OTA collects high-quality scholarly electronic texts and linguistic corpora (and any related resources) of long-term interest and use across the range of humanities disciplines"
  • Project Gutenberg
    Extensive collection of whole books.
  • Project Runeberg
    Center for Nordic literature. About 200 titles available online.