The Crown corpus

A Brown family corpus of written American English (published largely in 2009).

Project leaders: Jiajin Xu and Maocheng Liang (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
Time of compilation: 2010–2012
Size: 1 million words
Language: English
Number of texts/samples: 500
Period: 2008–2011
Released: 2012
Funding: National Social Sciences Foundation of China (Ref.: 12CYY060)
Project home page: http://www.bfsu-corpus.org/channels/corpus

Reference lines and copyright

Xu, Jiajin & Maocheng Liang. 2013. A tale of two C’s: Comparing English varieties with Crown and CLOB (The 2009 Brown family corpora). ICAME Journal 37: 175–183. http://icame.uib.no/ij37/Pages_175-184.pdf

The copyright of all the texts in Crown and CLOB belongs to the original copyright holders. We would intend a GNU distribution of the texts, given that they are not used for commercial purposes in whatever manner.

Manual

See the reference above.

Compilers

Jiajin Xu and Maocheng Liang (project leaders)

It is a crowdsourced corpus project involving over 147 college English teachers and postgraduate students from over 107 universities across China.

Availability

Open access: freely available for download at http://www.bfsu-corpus.org/static/corpora/Crown_CLOB.zip, or can be accessed through our CQPweb site (ID: test; password: test).

Associated projects

The Brown Corpus of Present-Day Edited American English
The Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus of British English (LOB)
The Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English
The Australian Corpus of English (ACE)
The Wellington Corpus of New Zealand English
The Freiburg-Brown Corpus of American English (Frown)
The Freiburg-LOB Corpus of British English (F-LOB)
British English 2006 (BE06)
The CLOB Corpus
The 1930s Brown Corpus (B-Brown)
The BLOB-1931 Corpus
The BLOB-1901 Corpus

CoRD Entry submitted on November 6, 2015 by Jiajin Xu.