Corpora for English

For languages other than English, see List of resources by language.

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English

• American English SpeechDat-Car
• American National Corpus (ANC)
• AMERICAN NATIONAL CORPUS FIRST RELEASE
• Biomedical corpora
• BNCweb a web-based interface to the British National Corpus
• Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists
• British National Corpus (from Oxford University)
• British National Corpus (BNC)
• British National Corpus project page (from UCREL)
• Brown Corpus
• Collins Wordbanks
• Congressional floor-debate transcripts, with support/oppose labels
• Corpus of Spoken Professional English
• Dialogue Diversity Corpus
• Electronic Text Center -- University of Virginia
• English Intonation in the British Isles -The IViE Corpus
• English stop words (from SMART)
• English Verb Classes And Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation (Index)
• Exploring Words and Phrases from the British National Corpus
• GOV2 Corpus - 426 gigabytes of text
• Gutenberg
• Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge 100M sample of Wikipedia
• ICAME
• Large Text Compression Benchmark's 1G sample of Wikipedia
• List of English stopwords
• Movie Review Data
• Multi-Perspective Question Answering (MPQA)
• Multiword Expression Resources
• Oxford English Corpus
• Phrases in English
• Restricted English Corpus from Dr. Caroline Lyon for PhD
• Sketch Engine
• Susanne: Annotated American English Corpus
• The BNC Index (for the BNCWorld Edition)
• The Brooklyn-Geneva-Amsterdam-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English
• The Dialogue Diversity Corpus
• The LUCY Corpus - Documentation
• TRAINS Dialogue Corpus
• WebCorp

Galician

• Linguistic Corpus of the University of Vigo (CLUVI)
• Technical Corpus of Galician (CTG)
• Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (TILG)

German

• Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals Corpora
• COSMAS II
• NEGRA Corpus

Iranian

• Bijankhan corpus
• CALLFRIEND Farsi (speech)
• Hamshahri corpus
• Persian speech database Farsdat

Russian

• Bokr Russian Reference Corpus
• HANCO: The Helsinki annotated corpus of Russian texts
• Russian Corpora
• Russian Corpora
• Russian Corpus Site
• The Russian National Corpus
• Russian Newspaper Corpus
• Russicon Resources

Slovak

• Slovak National Corpus

Italian

• LIP - Lessico di frequenza dell'Italiano Parlato - Access via BADIP
• ColFIS Corpus e Lessico di Frequenza dell'Italiano Scritto
• Corpus di Italiano Scritto contemporaneo (CORIS/CODIS)
• Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini (TLIO)

Link collections

• Collections of texts and corpora
• Manuel Barbera: General Corpora and Corpus Linguistics Resources
• Isabella Chiari: Corpora, Software and Linguistic resources
• Annotated list of resources on statistical NLP and corpus-based CL

Corpora tools

• List of stop words
• Poliqarp - open source XML-aware indexer, search engine and concordancer
• The Sketch Engine
• Treebank tokenization scheme

Uncategorized

Arabic

• Arabic Newswire Part 1

Bosnian

• The Oslo Corpus of Bosnian Texts

Bulgarian

• Corpus of spoken Bulgarian

Croatian

• Croatian Language Corpus at the IHJJ

Czech

• Czech National Corpus

Danish

• Danish news corpus

English

• 1963 Time Magazine corpus
• An Empirical Grammar of the English Verb System
• BNC Online Service
• BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS - WORLD EDITION

Finnish

• Finnish text bank

French

• Base Textuelle de Moyen Francais

German

• A Syntactically Annotated Corpus of German Newspaper Texts
• Experimental Corpus Query System (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Haitian Creole

• HAITIAN CREOLE ELECTRONIC TEXTS

Italian

• Oxford Text Archive Corpus of Italian Newspapers

Japanese

• list of Japanese transitive - intransitive verb pairs

Polish

• IPI PAN Polish Corpus

Romanian

• Romanian NLP

Sanskrit

• Sanskrit Library

Slovenian

• Slovene-English Parallel Corpus

Spanish

• Corpus del Espanol
• Corpus de referencia de la lengua Espanola contemporanea: corpus oral peninsular

Swahili

• Helsinki Corpus of Swahili (HCS)

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• 2000 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Corpus
• A Web Corpus and Topic Signatures for All WordNet 1.6 Nominal Senses (v 1.0)
• Alpino Treebank
• AOT
• Corpus Resources (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
• Cranfield collection
• CREA
• Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT)
• EuroWordNet
• Hansards Corpus - Searchable
• HCRC Map Task Corpus XML annotations
• ICOPOST
• IMS Corpus Toolbox, Univ. of Stuttgart
• IMS Corpus Workbench (CWB)
• International Corpus of Learner English
• Kiel University's Institute on Phonetics and Speech Procesing
• Lacio Web Corpora
• LANGUAGE LEARNING CENTER - ACADEMIC CORPUS
• Manuel Barbera: General Corpora and Corpus Linguistics Resources
• Medlars collection
• Miscellaneous Word Lists from Oxford University
• Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora
• Name lists from US census
• Nexing Corpus
• On-line books at CMU
• OPUS -- An Open Source Parallel Corpus
• Polish subcorpus of the International Corpus of Learner English
• Ramon Piero Center for Research
• Reuters Corpus
• Speech in Noisy Environments 1 (SPINE1 CODED) Coded Audio
• Speech in Noisy Environments 2 (SPINE2 CODED) Coded Audio
• Survey of Electronic Corpora (by Jane A. Edwards, file at CMU)
• Survey of English Usage, University College, London
• Switchboard Transcription Project
• TELRI Research Archive of Computational Tools and Resources
• The Childes Corpus - Children's language
• The CORPORA DataCenter (Norway)
• The Moby Corpus
• The Sofie Treebank - A Parallel Treebank of North European Languages