[Corpora-List] Full list of irregular English plurals

[WHITELOCK, Pete]

It's not going to find plurals like analyses/helices/dwarves/lives
though, is it? 



Pete Whitelock
Data and Resources Development Manager
Reference Department
Academic Division
Oxford University Press



-----Original Message-----
From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf
Of Mark Davies
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:57 PM
To: Yorick Wilks; corpora at lists.uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Full list of irregular English plurals

It's relatively easy to find irregular plurals in the Corpus of
Contemporary American English [COCA] (385+ million words, US,
1990-2008), BNC (100m, UK, -1993), or TIME (100m, US, 1920s-2000s) (see
http://corpus.byu.edu for links to these three corpora). The search
string is:

-*s.[*nn2*]

"-*s" indicates that the word does not end in an [s] "[*nn2*] indicates
that at least one of the possible tags for the word is "plural noun"

Might also set the number of results to something more than the default
100. Also, remember that the results are only as accurate as the CLAWS
tagger, which was used to tag these three corpora.

Best,

Mark Davies

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Brigham Young University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf

> Of Yorick Wilks
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:03 AM
> To: corpora at lists.uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Full list of irregular English plurals
> 
> There are on the web samples of the major types of irregular plurals 
> in English, but nothing that has any claim to completeness. Does 
> anyone know of anything out there reasonable available and complete?
> Yorick Wilks
> Sheffield
> 
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