CoRD News

Latest News

February 27, 2024

The Small Corpus of Colombian English as a Second Language Essays (SCoCESLE) has been added to CoRD.

September 4, 2023

The Pakistan Written English Corpus (PWEC) has been added to CoRD.

May 9, 2023

Several corpus descriptions have been recently updated, including new daughter corpora of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC). If you would like to update the information on your corpus, please get in touch. For minor updates, you can also use the feedback form.

February 15, 2022

The Corpus of Contemporary English Legal Decisions, 1950–2021 (CoCELD) has been added to CoRD.

January 18, 2022

The Málaga Corpus of Early English Scientific Prose (MCEESP) has been added to CoRD.

Older News

September 17, 2020

The Buckeye Corpus has been added to CoRD.

January 14, 2020

The HUM19UK Corpus has been added to CoRD.

January 17, 2019

The CONTRAST-IT corpus has been added to CoRD.

July 3, 2018

The Corpus of Video-Mediated English as a Lingua Franca Conversations (ViMELF) has been added to CoRD.

June 2, 2018

The Corpus of Video-Mediated English as a Lingua Franca Conversations (ViMELF) has just been released! CoRD entry coming soon.

November 8, 2017

The Small Corpus of English Political Apologies (SCEPA) has been added to CoRD.

April 5, 2017

Early-Modern Multiloquent Authors (EMMA) has been added to CoRD.

January 25, 2017

The Corpus of Multilingual Opinion Essays by College Students (MOECS) has been added to CoRD.

October 20, 2016

The International Corpus of English – the Gibraltarian component (ICE-GBR) has been added to CoRD.

October 5, 2016

The APU Writing and Reading Corpus 1979–1988 has been added to CoRD.

April 26, 2016

The Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535–1999 has been added to CoRD.

April 7, 2016

NerthusV3. Online Lexical Database of Old English has been added to CoRD.

March 1, 2016

The Quaker Historical Corpus (QHC) has been added to CoRD.

November 30, 2015

The Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE) has been added to CoRD.

November 15, 2015

Added entries for the Crown and CLOB corpora, the Advanced Learner English Corpus (ALEC) and the International Corpus of English – the Scottish component (ICE-SCO).

November 12, 2015

The International Corpus of English – the Nigerian component (ICE-NIG) has been added to CoRD.

October 27, 2015

CoRD now provides descriptions of more than 75 corpora and databases, with more to come. We are hoping to update the appearance of the site in the near future, and we would also like to transfer it onto a wiki-style platform. Please let us know of any changes you'd like to see or ideas which might improve the website.

March 23, 2011

All CoRD corpus entries have been checked for hyperlink integrity, and a number of minor errors have been corrected. Also, we are looking to add information on a number of new corpora in the near future.

September 17, 2009

A page listing all corpus reference lines has been added.

July 8, 2009

A new version of the Corpus Finder is now available.

April 20, 2009

A presentation on CoRD will be given at ICAME 30 in late May by Matti Rissanen, Terttu Nevalainen, and Jukka Tyrkkö.

April 16, 2009

The Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (LAEME) was added to CoRD.

January 12, 2009

The Corpus of Late Modern English Texts (CLMETEV) has been added to CoRD.

December 4th, 2008

The Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects (FRED) was added to CoRD. We are currently expecting submissions from well over a dozen corpus compilers.

October 24th, 2008

Entries for the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC) and the London-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (LOB) were added. The ENPC entry features a flash animation virtual tour of Knut Hofland's Translation Corpus Aligner.

March 14th, 2008

The entry for the Helsinki Corpus of British English Dialects was added to CoRD. The entry features audio samples from the corpus and photographs taken during corpus compilation trips to England.

September 20, 2007

A video introduction to the Helsinki Corpus is added. More video clips are forthcoming as new corpora are added in the next few months.

August 20th, 2007

A bibliography is added for Helsinki Corpus.

August 6th, 2007

Two new corpora are added to the CoRD database: SCOTS and NECTE.

May 23rd, 2007

VARIENG launches the Corpus Resource Database, featuring the Helsinki Corpus as the first corpus.