[Corpora-List] corpus of plain text docs in English

[Mark Davies]

Petar,

I'm not sure how far back you want the texts. If it's just to the early 1800s or so, you might check the links at the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (http://corpus.byu.edu/coha): Help / Composition of Corpus. It provides suggestions for some nice text archives, like Project Gutenberg, Making of America, etc.

For anything farther back than the early 1800s, you could just use the older texts from Project Gutenberg, or the many online archives of authors of Early Modern English. If your library is a member, you'll also want to check the huge collection at Early English Books Online (EEBO) for the machine readable (as opposed to the PDF image) texts.

Best,

Mark Davies

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Mark Davies
Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
Brigham Young University
(phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906

http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu

** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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> Dear Corpora members,
> 
> I am working on a domain specific machine translation project. I am looking for a
> corpus of plain text (historical) documents in English. I would like to experiment
> whether standard n-gram model, trained on such docs, could be used to improve
> other machine translation techniques designed specially for historical docs. Would you
> recommend some corpora?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Best regards,
> Petar Mitankin
> 
> 
> 
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