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| A balanced corpus of American English |
A balanced corpus contains texts from many different genres. A good example of a balanced corpus is COCA, the Corpus of Contemporary American English.
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Sunday, June 17, 2012
Corpus Linguistics Introduction: COCAS and The Babel English-Chinese Parallel Concordancer
Corpus linguistics uses computer software (concordancers) to look at very large samples of real language. These samples are called corpora (singular = corpus). A corpus is a collection of texts. Some corpora only contain one genre: spoken English, newspaper English, scientific English. Other corpora try to use samples from many different types of language use. Some corpora are bilingual: two languages side by side.
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