Links to Corpora and Corpus Resources
Here are a couple of links to corpus resources and to corpora you can search online if you want to see how words are actually used by speakers and writers of English.
The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English; roughly 1.8 million words of academic spoken English
search MICASE
A simple search and browse interface to the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers; 829 A-graded student papers from 16 disciplines; roughly 2.6 million words
search MICUSP
The British National Corpus; roughly 100 million words of spoken and written British English
search BNC
Brigham Young University interface to the British National Corpus; roughly 100 million words of spoken and written British English
search BYU-BNC
Brigham Young University Corpus of Contemporary American English; currently over 385 million words of spoken and written American English (20 million words are added each year)
search COCA
Brigham Young University TIME Magazine corpus of American English; roughly 100 million words; 275,000 article from TIME Magazine (1923-2006)
search TIME corpus
free software package for corpus analysis, developed by Laurence Anthony
AntConc homepage and download information
software package for corpus analysis, developed by Mike Scott (license required)
WordSmith Tools homepage and purchase information
software package for corpus analysis, developed by Michael Barlow (license required)
MonoConc Pro homepage and purchase information
free software for n-gram and phrase-frame extraction from corpora, developed by William H. Fletcher
kfNgram homepage and download information
software for n-gram and collocation extraction from corpora, developed by Michael Barlow (license required)
Collocate homepage and purchase information
The British Academic Spoken English corpus; roughly 1.6 million words of academic spoken British English
BASE project website
The British Academic Written English corpus; roughly 6.5 million words of academic writing by British university students
BAWE project website
The International Corpus of Learner English; roughly 3 million words of written learner English (21 different L1 backgrounds)
ICLE project website
See David Lee’s Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists
If you are a student at the University of Michigan and would like to learn more about corpus analysis, you may be interested in joining our Corpus Analysis Group.
How can you use language corpora and corpus tools to help improve your academic writing? We provide support, training and in-class sessions in our work at the ELI.
This project is examining the importance of recurrent word strings in different types of language.
The projects on this page provide examples of the kinds of research carried out by the researchers in the MCL team.
Here are a couple of links to corpus resources and to corpora you can search online if you want to see how words are actually used by speakers and writers of English.
On these pages you will find information about conferences members of the MCL team presented at or helped organize.