- Bank of English
The Bank of English is the name of the
COBUILD corpus, a collection of English texts. These are mainly British, but American and Australian data are also included.The majority of the texts are from written English, but there is also a large component of spoken data. The corpus totals 525 million running words as of
2005 . Copies of the corpus are held both atHarperCollins Publishers and theUniversity of Birmingham . The version at Birmingham can be accessed for academic research.The Bank of English forms part of the
Collins Word Web together with the French, German and Spanish corpora.ee also
*
BYU Corpus of American English 360 million words, 1990-2007. Freely available online.
*British National Corpus
*Corpus linguistics
*COBUILD External links
* [http://www.collins.co.uk/wordbanksonline/ Collins Wordbanks]
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