Corpora: Corpora of Business Writing

[Linda Lin]

Dear All

I wrote to ask for corpora of business writing sometimes ago. Here is a
summary of the answers I've got. Thanks your kind help.

Best

Linda

> Hi,
>
> We built a business corpus which contains the kind of texts you are
> interested on. The corpus is distributed by ELDA, but unfortunately it's
> quite expensive. Check: http://www.elda.fr/cata/text/W0028.html
>
> About two years ago someone from Hong Kong announced a corpus of
> business letters. Unfortunately, I cannot find the message now. Have a
> look in the corpora archive. I could also point you to a kind of on
> going/stalling project http://www.clg.wlv.ac.uk/projects/style/
> which tries to compare several subcorpora (including business texts). At
> that page you can see and compare frequency lists and ngrams. Please let
> me know if you find the page useful. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons,
> I cannot give you access to the full texts.
>
> All the best,
> Constantin

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>
> The LDC has the JURIS corpus, which is a text archive provided by the
> U.S. Dept. of Justice; it also has a range of corpora that include
> multi-year archives from the Wall Street Journal.  These are provided
> on cdrom, and therefore are not free, unfortunately.  You can find
> further information at the LDC online catalog web site:
>
> www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog
>
> Best regards,
>
>     Dave Graff

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> Dear Linda,
>
> I haven't checked for the British National Corpus (BNC) as a whole, but
the
> BNC Sampler (a subcorpus of the BNC) already contains 134,275 words of
spoken
> language marked as "Business" and 92,057 words of written language marked
as
> "Commerce and finance". (information taken from the documentation).
>
> "Law" might eventually be included in one of the other domains, but
there's
> no domain called "Law".
>
> Neither the BNC nor the BNC sampler are free of charge; for more
information
> see http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/BNC/
>
> best wishes,
>
> Holger Bosk

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> Linda,
>
> Have a look at http://www.kamakuranet.ne.jp/~someya/ for Business Letter
> corpora and also go to http://devoted.to/corpora for links to lots of
others.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mike
>