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Corpora

Overview

• Synchronic
• • German
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Catalan
  • Swedish
  • Czech
  • Finnish
    
  • Russian
  • Turkish
    
  • Multilingual
• Diachronic
• • German
  • English
  • Portuguese
  • French
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Spanish
• Further Resources

Synchronic

German

• DWDS Core Corpus
  http://www.dwds.de/resource/kerncorpus/

  Corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, upon which the Digitale Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jahrhunderts (DWDS) was created.
  

• Deutscher Wortschatz Project
  http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/

  Deutscher Wortschatz Online. Contains 35 milion sentences with 500 million words.

• IDS-Corpora
  http://www.ids-mannheim.de/kt/corpora.html

  Corpora of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache. World-biggest collection of German-language textcorpora used for empirical linguistic research. Online search possible with COSMAS .

• LIMAS-Korpus
  http://www.korpora.org/Limas/

  Representative corpus of written contemporary German language of the 1970s: 500 texts or fragments, various text genres with a total of 1 million word forms. Can be entirely searched online.

• Korpus Südtirol
  http://www.korpus-suedtirol.it/index_EN

  An initiative aiming at the collection, filing and corpus linguistic processing of South Tyrolean German texts.

English

• British National Corpus (BNC)
  http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk

  The British National Corpus contains 100 million words of written and spoken language from various fields and aims to represent contemporary British English. Also available on CD.

• American National Corpus (ANC)
  http://americannationalcorpus.org/

  The ANC corpus aims to be American equivalent of the BNC corpus.

• Loyola Computer-Mediated Communication Corpus
  http://cmccorpus.cs.loyola.edu/

  900 text samples of computer-mediated communication from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland (USA)

• Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English: MiCASE
  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micase/

  Freely available, online search function, flat annotation. Comprises 152 Transcriptions ( 1,848,364 Words)

• International Corpus of English (ICE)
  http://ice-corpora.net/ice/

  Corpuses of regional varieties of English. Each corpus consists of one million words of spoken and wirtten English produced after 1989. Common corpus design and scheme for grammatical annotation. Many of the corpuses are free for non-commercial academic research.

French

• Corpus de Référence du Français parlé
  http://sites.univ-provence.fr/delic/corpus/index.html

  440,000 words, 134 recordings, over 36 hours of spoken language

• Un corpus d’entretiens spontanés
  http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/mb/80

  95 conversations/speakers

Spanish

• Arthus
  http://www.bds.usc.es/corpus.html

  Various text sorts. Contemporary. All scanned.

Italian

• CORpus di Italiano Scritto (CORIS)
  http://corpora.dslo.unibo.it/coris_eng.html

  100 million words.

• Banca dati dell'italiano parlato (BADIP)
  http://languageserver.uni-graz.at/badip/badip/home.php

  Various corpora of spoken Italian

• Corpus OVI dell'Italiano antico (corpus TLIO)
  http://www.vocabolario.org/

  21.817.929 words in 1978 texts

Catalan

• Corpus del català contemporani
  http://www.ub.edu/cccub/

  Corpus of contemporary colloquial Catalan.

Swedish

• The Bank of Swedish
  http://spraakbanken.gu.se/

  A linguistic reference databank at the University of Gothenburg.

Czech

• Cesky Národní Korpus (CNK)
  http://ucnk.ff.cuni.cz

  Czech national corpus. Query can be made online or via the GUI "Bonito".

Finnisch

• The Advanced Finnish Learners’ Corpus
  http://www.hum.utu.fi/oppiaineet/suomi/en/research/Siitonen_Ivaska.html

  Longitudinal essay corpus with texts written by students learning Finnish in MA courses.

Russian

• Narusco
  http://narusco.ru/

  National Corpus of Written Russian

Turkish

Turkish National Corpus
http://www.tnc.org.tr/

Multilingual Corpora

• OPUS - Open Source Parallel Corpus
  http://urd.let.rug.nl/tiedeman/OPUS/

  OPUS comprises 30 million words in 60 languages. The corpus also comprises an Open Office docummentatition (OO), PHP manuals (PHP), and KDE manuals (KDedoc) with KDE system news.

• Multext Project
  http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/multext/

  Multilingual Text Tools And Korpora

• Multext-East
  http://nl.ijs.si/ME/

  MULTEXT-East is a corpus of 6 language: Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Romanian, and Slovenian. English is the "hub language" of the project.

• Bohemica.com
  http://www.bohemica.com/index.php

  Translation corpus annoted in Czech and English containing 100.000 words (24 written documents consisting each of 1000-4000 words). The corpus contains both fiction and non-fiction and is available for download.

Diachronic

German

• Bibliotheca Augustana
  www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html

  litteraturae et artis collectio

• Kali Korpus
  www.kali.uni-hannover.de

  The German Kali corpus (Kali: Korpusarbeit Linguistik, corpus work linguistics) is a partially annotated diachronic corpus, designed for research and teaching. The project started at the end of 2003 for the German course at the University of Hannover under the supvervision of Prof. Gabriele Diewald.

• Text corpus of Thomas Gloning
  http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/etexte.htm

  freely available

• Middle High German Corpus (Bochum)
  http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wegera/archiv_1.htm
• Middle High German Terms and Notions Data Bank (Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank, MHDBDB)
  http://mhdbdb.sbg.ac.at

  contains 4,7 million Words

• CEEC (Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis)
  http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de

  Digitalised codes of the archiepiscopal diocesis and dome library in Cologne(DDB)

• TITUS
  http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexd.htm

  Indo-German thesaurus of text and language materials

• mediavum
  http://www.mediaevum.de

  links to historical texts

English

• Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English
  http://www.ling.upenn.edu/mideng

  Corpus comprising prose examples and is annotated syntactically. Structures can be queried. CD-ROM.

• Brooklyn-Geneva-Amsterdam-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English
  http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~sp20/corpus.html

  Prose examples and syntactically annotated. Structures can be queried. CD-ROM.

• Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English
  http://khnt.hit.uib.no/icame/manuals/LAMPETER/LAMPHOME.HTM
  

  Collection of texts from various fields, published between 1640 and 1740.

• Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC)
  http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/domains/CEEC.html

  2,7 million words. Text published between 1417 and 1681.

• The English language of the north-west in the late Modern English period: A Corpus of late 18c Prose
  http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/staff/david-denison/corpus-late-18th-century-prose/

  Ca. 300.000 Wörter. Letters between 1761 and 1789.

• Corpus of Early Modern Playtexts in English: KEMPE
  http://corp.hum.sdu.dk

  Can be queried online; freely available. Part-of-speech (POS) and syntactically annotated corpus of 8.9 million words.
  

Portuguese

• O Corpus do Portugues
  http://www.corpusdoportugues.org/

  Corpus of 45 million words, 50,000 texts published between the 14th and 20th century. Lemmas and POS are annotated. A powerful web interface allows searching for information according to texts, registers, dialects, time periods. Also possible are statistical calculations based upon the search results.

• Tycho Brahe Parsed Corpus of Historical Portuguese
  http://www.tycho.iel.unicamp.br/~tycho/corpus/index.html

  Syntactically annotated. Downloadable.

French

• Frantext
  http://zeus.inalf.fr/frantext.htm

  http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/frantext (description)

Italian

• Corpus OVI dell'Italiano antico (corpus TLIO)
  http://www.vocabolario.org/
  21,817,929 Words in 1978 Texts
  

Dutch

• Taalbank
  http://gtb.inl.nl/

Spanish

• Corpus del espanol (RAE)
  http://www.corpusdelespanol.org/

  date range: 1200-2000.

Further Resources

• Technical Report "Eine vergleichende Analyse von historischen und diachronen digitalen Korpora"
  http://www.deutschdiachrondigital.de/publikationen/TRHistorischeKorpora.pdf.

  Authors: Emil Kroymann, Sebastian Thiebes, Anke Lüdeling, Ulf Leser

• Internet Grammar
  http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/InternetGrammar/shared/

  German-English translation corpus. Texts from the last 15 years of politics, tourism, as well as academic texts. 1 million words per language.

• A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English
  http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/gloss

  
  

• Johnson's Dictionary
  http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/johnson

  Access available via password.
  

• Dictionnaire du Moyen francais
  http://atilf.atilf.fr/dmf.htm

  
  

• Middle English
  http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/m/mec/

  Elektronic version of the Middle English Dictionary

• The Perseus Digital Library
  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

  
  

• Celt Corpus of Electronic Texts
  http://www.ucc.ie/celt/

  Online ressource fir Irish history, literature and politics

• Medievaland Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB)
  http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/memdb/

  
  

• The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
  http://www.tlg.uci.edu/

  
  

• The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)
  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ian/emedd.html

  
  

• The Patrologia Latina Database (PLD)
  http://etext.virginia.edu/pld.html

  Comprises the most influential works of Roman and Medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature. Commercial.

• A Dictionary of the Welsh Language
  http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww/

  
  

• Thesaurus Lingua Aethiopicae
  http://www.uni-mainz.de/Organisationen/TLA/index.html

  
  

• Latin and Greek texts
  http://www.ulg.ac.be/cipl/bdlasla/

  
  

• Wörterbuchnetz
  http://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/

  Network of dictionaries

• Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)
  http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/

  Transcription of clay tablets with over 350 literary works from Mesopotamia (nowadays Iraq) in Sumerian, late 3rd and early 2nd century BCE