The Bank of English is a representative subset of the 4.5 billion words
COBUILD
COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the University of Birmingham in 1980 and funded by Collins publishers.
The facility was initially led by Professor Jo ...
corpus
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Linguistics
* Text corpus, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts
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, a collection of English texts. These are mainly British in origin, but content from North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other
Commonwealth countries is also being included.
The majority of the texts are from written English, collected from websites, newspapers, magazines and books. There is also a large component of spoken data using material from radio, TV and informal conversations. The Bank of English totals 650 million running words.
The Collins Corpus
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Publishers and the University of Birmingham
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. The version at Birmingham can be accessed for academic research.
The Bank of English forms part of the ''Collins Word Web'' together with the French, German and Spanish corpora.
See also
* Corpus of Contemporary American English
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is a one-billion-word corpus of contemporary American English. It was created by Mark Davies, retired professor of corpus linguistics at Brigham Young University (BYU).
Content
The Corpus of C ...
(COCA)
* British National Corpus
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a 100-million-word text corpus of samples of written and spoken English from a wide range of sources. The corpus covers British English of the late 20th century from a wide variety of genres, with the intention ...
(BNC)
References
External links
COBUILD Reference
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Online databases
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