Information about reference corpora

[Laura Tommaso]

Hi!

I understand that AntConc now provides reference corpora, which is great!
I'm not sure where I can find more specific information about them. I'm particularly interested in a large corpus of contemporary written English to use in my research.

Thanks for your help,
Laura

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Laura,

If you select one of the new in-built corpora, AntConc will show you a table of information about each of the corpora, including the size and reference information. If you want to read more about the corpora, please see the reference there.

As for your question, the AmE06 is a US general English corpus and the BE06 is the equivalent British English one. These are one-million word corpora, which are suitable for general studies, but you might want to build a bigger corpus from raw files yourself. I'm looking into adding the BNC to the list of available corpora, but I'll need permission from the owners before I can do that. If you find a good corpus and think it would be good to add to AntConc, let me know. I'm hoping that the AntConc repository of corpora can grow, making it easier for people to do research such as you are doing.

I hope that helps!

Laurence.

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Waseda University
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[Laura Tommaso]

Hi Laurence, 

thanks for your help! A bigger reference corpus of contemporary written British English would be ideal for my research. 

I really hope it will become available here too!

Laura

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Laura,

If you know of a good corpus that you would like to see added, do let me know. I can contact the owners and ask about it.

Laurence.

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Professor of Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Waseda University
3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

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