[Corpora-List] ask for very large, well-balanced corpus

[Mark Davies]

>> Does anyone know where or how I can get a well-balanced corpus of modern English, such as BNC, but with a much larger size?  I hope it can have at least 1 billion words

It's only 450 million words, but you might try: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca (COCA)

It is divided evenly into spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic, each with 90-95 million words.

It is also much more recent than the BNC. COCA has 20 million words each year, 1990-2012 (compared to the 1993 end date of the BNC).

Finally, it has the same genre balance each year, which makes it nice for looking at recent changes in English; see:

Davies, Mark. (2011) "The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the First Reliable Monitor Corpus of English". Literary and Linguistic Computing 25: 447-65.

Best,

Mark Davies

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Mark Davies
Professor of Linguistics / Brigham Young University
http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/
** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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Dear all,

Does anyone know where or how I can get a well-balanced corpus of modern English, such as BNC, but with a much larger size? I hope it can have at least 1 billion words. I tried to assemble a corpus from Wikipedia articles but it turned out that such a corpus is not balanced. Wikipedia contains many repetitions of the same type of articles, for example, films or birds.

A Web corpus should be okay for my purpose as long as it was harvested from balanced domains.


Thanks,

Lushan Han 
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