Links to Corpora and Corpus Resources
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
A monthly meeting of faculty, researchers and students providing training in corpus software and analysis and opportunities to present corpus work in progress.
Information about the introductions to corpus linguistics and training in the use of corpus tools we provide to students and visiting scholars to the ELI.
A project to explore the factors involved in the measurement of repeated word sequences in language sampled from a range of corpora.
MCL researchers are involved in a wide range of research activities in corpus and applied linguistics.
Useful corpora and corpus tools for research, teaching and corpus linguistic analysis.
Information about upcoming and past conferences and colloquia organized by and involving members of the MCL team.