LINGUIST List 22.2067 Fri May 13 2011 FYI: 155 Billion Word Corpus: American English Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Mark Davies , 155 Billion Word Corpus: American English Message 1: 155 Billion Word Corpus: American English Date: 12-May-2011 From: Mark Davies <mark_daviesbyu.edu> Subject: 155 Billion Word Corpus: American English E-mail this message to a friend We're pleased to announce a new corpus -- the Google Books (American English) corpus: http://googlebooks.byu.edu/ This corpus is based on the American English portion of the Google Books data (see http://ngrams.googlelabs.com and especially http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets). It contains 155 *billion* words (155,000,000,000) in more than 1.3 million books from the 1810s- 2000s (including 62 billion words from just 1980-2009). The corpus has most of the functionality of the other corpora from http://corpus.byu.edu (e.g. COCA, COHA, and our interface to the BNC), including: searching by part of speech, wildcards, and lemma (and thus advanced syntactic searches), synonyms, collocate searches, frequency by decade (tables listing each individual string, or charts for total frequency), comparisons of two historical periods (e.g. collocates of "women" or "music" in the 1800s and the 1900s), and more. This American English corpus is just one of seven Google Books-based corpora that we hope to create in the next year or two (contingent on funding, which we are applying for in June 2011). If funded, the other corpora will include British English, English from the 1500s-1700s, and corpora of Spanish, French, and German (see the listing at http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets). Each of these corpora will be based on at least 50 billion words of data, and they should represent a nice addition to existing resources. The Google Books (American English) corpus is freely-available at http://googlebooks.byu.edu, and we hope that it is of value to you in your research and teaching. Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 13-May-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.