[Corpora-List] References for written business corpora

[Tony Berber Sardinha]

Hi, below are some references:

Cambridge International Corpus (CIC): a subsection includes British  
business English (30 million words written and 1 million spoken) and  
American business English (30 million, written only). A description  
of the corpus can be found at http://www.cambridge.org/elt/corpus/ 
international_corpus2.htm

Wolverhampton Business English Corpus (WBE): 10 million words, from  
the web. For more information, visit http://www.elda.org/catalogue/en/ 
text/W0028.html.

Mike Nelson’s Business English Corpus (BEC): one million words,  
spoken and written. For details, visit http://users.utu.fi/micnel/BEC/ 
bec2/corpusmakeup.htm.

The DIRECT Project Corpus: over five million words of spoken and  
written material, in Portuguese and in English. For details, see  
http://www2.lael.pucsp.br/corpora.

bye

tony
www2.lael.pucsp.br/~tony


On Apr 18, 2007, at 6:15 AM, sciubba at uniroma3.it wrote:

> Hi,
> there should be a corpus of 19th century British
> business letters at the University of Bergamo. I
> don't know whether they're tagged already.
> Try contact Prof. Marina Dossena
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>
> good luck and let me know whatever you find ;)
>
> eleonora
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>> I am forwarding the below request for one of our
> PhD students, who is not a
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>> member of CORPORA. Please, reply to her, and
> we will post a summary
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>> to the list in the same way.
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>> Best Regards
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>> Bilge Say
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>> Cognitive Science Program
>> Informatics Institute
>> Middle East Technical University
>> Ankara, Turkey
>> Email: bsay at ii.metu.edu.tr
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>> Dear list members,
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>>  For a term project, I will design a corpus of
> written business communication in Turkish. In the
> project, written documents such as emails and
> letters will be included. Is anyone aware of the
> availability of a corpus of written business
> communication in other languages? Any references
> will be much welcome.
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>> Thanks in advance
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>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Derya Çokal, Dept. of Foreign Language Education
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>> Middle East Technical University, Turkey
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>> cokal at metu.edu.tr
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