[Corpora-List] ANC FIRST RELEASE NOW AVAILABLE

[Nancy Ide]

                                       AMERICAN NATIONAL CORPUS
                                               ****  First Release****

The First Release of the American National Corpus is now available from
the Linguistic Data Consortium.

The ANC First Release contains over 10,000,000 words of written and
spoken American English, annotated for lemma and part of speech. It is
freely available (for the cost of CD production) for research from the
Linguistic Data Consortium. Commercial users can obtain the corpus and
gain rights to use it in commercial products by joining the ANC
Consortium.

Information about the contents and structure of the ANC First Release :

           http://AmericanNationalCorpus.org/FirstRelease

Linguistic Data Consortium catalog entry for the ANC First Release :


http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003T20

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For information about the ANC project and joining the ANC Consortium,
consult the ANC homepage at
http://AmericanNationalCorpus.org. Information about the LDC is
available at http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/

For inquiries about the ANC, contact  anc at cs.vassar.edu or the ANC
Project Manager randi.reppen at nau.edu