Re: Corpora: history of corpora

Andrew Harley (aharley@cup.cam.ac.uk)
Tue, 01 Dec 1998 11:07:58 +0000

At 09:49 AM 01/12/1998 +0100, cendon@wamba.cpd.uva.es wrote:
>I am doing a research on the history of electronic corpora for my Ph D
>Thesis and I would like to know when the following electronic corpora
>were compiled: "Corpus Leuven-Drama"; "Corpus Longman-Lancaster"; "Corpus
>Cobuild/The Birmingham Collection of English Text/Bank of English"; "The
>Oxford Text Archive"; "International Computer Archive of Modern English".
>Can someone help me at least with some of them?

You didn't ask, but the "Cambridge International Corpus" has been developed
at Cambridge University Press from 1992 and is still being developed today.
It is not publicly available but should be included in a history of
electronic corpora.

Andrew Harley
Systems Manager - ELT Reference
Cambridge University Press

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