Basics
What is a corpus?
A collection of texts used for linguistic analysis.
What is a learner corpus?
This corpus includes texts produced by second language learners.
What is a parallel corpus?
A corpus that pairs texts with their translations.
What is a written corpus?
A corpus made of newspaper articles, books, and magazines.
What is corpus linguistics?
Corpora are mainly used in this branch of study.
What is a monolingual corpus?
This corpus contains texts in only one language.
What is a monitor corpus?
A corpus continuously updated with new data.
What is a comparable corpus?
A corpus with texts in different languages but not translations.
What is a spoken corpus?
A corpus built from spoken conversations or transcripts.
What is a concordancer?
This tool is often used to search through corpora.
What is a multilingual corpus?
This corpus contains texts in more than one language.
What is a specialized corpus?
A corpus focused on one domain, such as law or medicine
What is “parallel = translated texts, comparable = similar genre but not translated”?
The difference between parallel and comparable corpora.
What is a mixed-mode corpus?
A corpus that mixes both speech and writing.
What is language teaching / error analysis?
A corpus of learners’ texts can help improve this.
What is a general corpus?
A corpus that is balanced across genres, registers, and text types.
What is a diachronic corpus?
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A corpus containing historical texts across time periods.
What is a multilingual parallel corpus?
A corpus with translated texts across multiple languages.
What is an electronic corpus / digital corpus?
A corpus built from computer-mediated communication (e.g., social media).
What is a parallel corpus?
This corpus type is crucial for training machine translation systems.
What is a reference corpus?
This type of corpus is designed to serve as a standard benchmark for study.
What is a synchronic corpus?
A corpus that focuses on everyday present-day language.
What is a comparable specialized corpus?
If you compare English and Spanish medical research articles not translated, you are using this type of corpus.
What is an academic corpus?
A corpus designed specifically for classroom speech and academic writing.
What is a monitor corpus?
This type of corpus helps track slang, new words, and language change in real time.