Corpora: Freely accessible Corpus of American English

[Nancy M. Ide]

Ruth Möhlig writes:
 > I have two questions:
 > 
 > 1) is there any freely accessible, fairly recent corpus of American English
 > (preferrably both written and spoken and preferrably searchable with
 > Wordsmith)?
 > 

An American National Corpus is under development, which will suit your
description (see http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/anc)--but it will not
be available in even a primitive (ie.e., unannotated or validated)
form until some time next year.

Nancy Ide

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Nancy Ide

Professor and Chair                     
Department of Computer Science, Vassar College                          
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0520 USA         
Tel: +1 845 437-5988 Fax: +1 845 437-7498 
ide at cs.vassar.edu                       

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ide at loria.fr

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