Corpora in CoRD

At present, CoRD provides descriptions of a large number of corpora, subcorpora and databases. Many more are forthcoming and we encourage all compilers of English language corpora to submit a description.

If you have any updates about the corpora already included in the list below, please contact: tanja.saily@helsinki.fi

To find a corpus that matches the features you're interested in, try the Corpus Finder.

Corpora

Advanced Learner English Corpus (ALEC)
APU Writing and Reading Corpus 1979–1988 (APU Corpus)
A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (ARCHER)
BLOB-1931 Corpus (BLOB-1931)
British English 06 (BE06)
British Academic Spoken English Corpus (BASE)
British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE)
British National Corpus (BNC)
BROWN Corpus (BROWN)
1930s BROWN Corpus (B-BROWN)
Buckeye Corpus
CLOB Corpus (CLOB)
CONTRAST-IT Corpus (CONTRAST-IT)
Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE)
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
Corpus of Contemporary English Legal Decisions, 1950–2021 (CoCELD)
Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC)
- Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS)
- Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence (PCEEC)
- Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, 2nd edition (PCEEC2)
- Corpus of Early English Correspondence Supplement (CEECSU)
- Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension (CEECE)
- Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension Sampler (CEECES)
- Tagged Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension (TCEECE)
- Corpora of Early English Correspondence, XML Edition
Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM)
- Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT)
- Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT)
- Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT)
Corpus of Early English Recipes (CoER)
Corpus of Early Ontario English, pre-Confederation Section (CONTE-pC)
Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 (CED)
Corpus of English Religious Prose (COERP)
Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)
Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535–1999 (CHELAR)
Corpus of Irish English 14th – 20th c. (CIE)
Corpus of Late Modern British and American English Prose (COLMOBAENG)
Corpus of Late Modern English Prose
Corpus of Late Modern English Texts (CLMETEV)
Corpus of late 18c Prose (CLEP)
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (CMEPV)
Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW)
Corpus of Multilingual Opinion Essays by College Students (MOECS)
Corpus of Narrative Etymologies (CoNE)
Corpus of Nineteenth-century Newspaper English (CNNE)
Corpus of Oz Early English (COOEE)
Corpus of Scottish Correspondence (CSC)
Corpus of Singaporean Blogs (CoSib)
Corpus of Video-Mediated English as a Lingua Franca Conversations (ViMELF)
Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC)
- A Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)
- A Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
- A Corpus of History English Texts (CHET)
- A Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST)
- A Corpus of Women Scientists
CROWN Corpus (CROWN)
Diachronic Corpus of Present-Day Spoken English (DCPSE)
Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE)
Dictionary of Old English Corpus (DOEC)
Early-Modern Multiloquent Authors (EMMA)
English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings (ELFA)
English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC)
Freiburg-Brown Corpus (FROWN)
Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects (FRED)
Freiburg-Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (F-LOB)
Google Books Corpora
Helsinki Archive of Regional English Speech – Cambridgeshire sampler (HARES-CAM)
Helsinki Corpus (HC)
Helsinki Corpus of British English Dialects (HD)
Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots (HCOS)
HUM19UK Corpus (HUM19UK)
Image to Text: Mary Hamilton Papers
Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose (ICoMEP) -- Provisional entry
International Corpus of English (ICE)
- International Corpus of English - Gibraltar (ICE-GBR)
- International Corpus of English - Great Britain (ICE-GB)
- International Corpus of English - Nigeria (ICE-NIG)
- International Corpus of English - Scotland (ICE-SCO)
John Swales Conference Corpus (JSCC)
Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts (LC)
Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (LOB)
Letter Corpus of ICAMET (LCoICAMET) -- Provisional entry
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (LAEME)
Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediæval English (eLALME)
Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS)
London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English (LLC)
Málaga Corpus of Early English Scientific Prose (MCEESP)
- The Málaga Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose (MCLMESP)
- The Málaga Corpus of Early Modern English Scientific Prose (MCEModESP)
- The Málaga Corpus of Late Modern English Scientific Prose (MCLModESP)
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE)
Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers (MICUSP)
Middle English Grammar project (MEG-C)
Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE)
Old Bailey Corpus (OBC)
Pakistan Written English Corpus (PWEC)
Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English (PPCEME)
Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, second edition (PPCME2)
Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English (PPCMBE)
Quaker Historical Corpus (QHC)
Reduced redundancy USENET corpus (WestLabUSENET)
Rostock Corpus of English Newspapers
Salamanca Corpus. Digital Archive of English Dialect Texts (SC)
Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech (SCOTS)
Seville Corpus of Northern English (SCONE)
Small Corpus of Colombian English as a Second Language Essays (SCoCESLE)
Small Corpus of English Political Apologies (SCEPA)
Small Corpus of Political Speeches (SCPS)
Time Corpus (TIME) -- Provisional entry
Transatlantic Component of the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (TaCoCASE)
Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE)
Yahoo-based Contrastive Corpus of Questions and Answers (YCCQA)
York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE)
Zurich English Newspaper corpus (ZEN)

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