Corpus Basics
What is a corpus?
Correct: A collection of written or spoken texts used for linguistic research.
Corpus designed to study general features of a language.
General (reference) corpus.
Corpus that includes texts from one specific time period.
Synchronic corpus.
Corpus freely available to everyone online.
Open corpus.
Corpus made of written texts such as books or newspapers.
Written corpus.
The main purpose of a corpus.
To analyze language use and patterns in real contexts.
Corpus built for a specific field, like law or medicine.
Specialized corpus.
Corpus that includes texts from different historical periods.
Diachronic (historical) corpus.
Corpus available only to registered researchers or organizations.
Restricted corpus.
Corpus consisting of spoken language transcriptions.
Spoken corpus.
What is corpus linguistics?
The study of language based on examples taken from real texts (corpora).
Corpus used to compare two or more languages.
Parallel (comparable) corpus.
The main goal of a diachronic corpus.
To study language change over time.
Corpus you must buy or subscribe to use.
Commercial corpus.
Corpus that combines both written and spoken texts.
Multimodal corpus.
Name one famous English corpus.
The British National Corpus (BNC).
Corpus created for educational purposes.
Learner corpus.
A corpus with continuously updated data.
Monitor corpus.
Corpus that can be accessed with a password or login.
Closed corpus.
Corpus containing texts translated from other languages.
Translation corpus.
What is a concordancer?
A software tool that finds and displays word occurrences in a corpus.
Corpus used to build dictionaries and grammar books.
Reference corpus.
Example of a historical corpus.
Helsinki Corpus of English Texts.
Which type of corpus gives public access to its data?
Open corpus.
Corpus created from social media posts or online communication.
Web corpus.