LINGUIST List 14.2890

Wed Oct 22 2003

FYI: American National Corpus First Release

Editor for this issue: Anne Clarke <annelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Nancy Ide, ANC FIRST RELEASE NOW AVAILABLE

 AMERICAN NATIONAL CORPUS
 First Release

The First Release of the American National Corpus is now available
from the Linguistic Data Consortium.

The ANC First Release contains over 10,000,000 words of written and
spoken American English, annotated for lemma and part of speech. It is
freely available (for the cost of CD production) for research from the
Linguistic Data Consortium. Commercial users can obtain the corpus and
gain rights to use it in commercial products by joining the ANC
Consortium.

Information about the contents and structure of the ANC First Release :

 http://AmericanNationalCorpus.org/FirstRelease

Linguistic Data Consortium catalog entry for the ANC First Release :

 
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003T20


For information about the ANC project and joining the ANC Consortium,
consult the ANC homepage at http://AmericanNationalCorpus.org 
Information about the LDC is available at http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/

For inquiries about the ANC, contact anccs.vassar.edu or the ANC 
Project Manager randi.reppennau.edu

rde