[Corpora-List] Reference corpus of Academic English

[Donna Rose Miller]

Hello Lia,
 
MICASE is made up of  spoken discourse as far as I know.
 
Re tagging for evaluation (appraisal systems), software is being worked on but it's not an easy project, given the delicacy of the systems...For tips you might contact Lexie Don at eldon at panix.com
 
as she's been doing a lot of this in her corpus.
 
Best,
Donna
 
Chair of English Linguistics 
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna

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Dear All,
I made up a specialised corpus of scientific research article abstracts (time span 2000-2005), now I am looking for a reference corpus of academic English (preferably written register). I was thinking about the MICASE or? 
Furthermore, I intend to tag it semantically for specific investigations like textual colligation, evaluation and cohesion. The authors I am referring to are Hoey, Hunston & Thompson, Martin. Does anybody have any hints,clues or pieces of advice to suggest?
Thanking you for your colloboration.
 
 
Best wishes
 
Lia Cava
 
 
 
Phd student Università Federico II  di Napoli
University of Liverpool