Corpus Collection

An overview of four corpora supporting research in English learning, academic writing, and cross-linguistic comparison.

ArtCOPE Corpus 01

The ArtCOPE (Art and Design Corpus of Occupational Purpose English) corpus was compiled to support English vocabulary learning among Chinese vocational students majoring in Art and Design. It consists of accessible and practical English texts sourced from websites based in English-speaking countries.

Occupational EnglishArt & Design

CROWN2021 Corpus 02

CROWN2021 is a one-million-word corpus of American English, balanced in the manner of the Brown family of corpora. The CROWN2021_POS folder contains part-of-speech-annotated texts tagged with the CLAWS C5 tagset. All of the texts were published in 2021.

Written American EnglishOne million words

DEAPBaby Corpus 03

DEAP (Database of English for Academic Purposes) Baby is a balanced, multi-disciplinary English for Academic Purposes (EAP) corpus. It was created by resampling the 125-million-word Database of English for Academic Purposes (DEAP) Corpus. The DEAP_Baby_V1.0_POS folder contains part-of-speech-annotated texts tagged with the CLAWS C7 tagset.

English for Academic Purposes (EAP)Multi-disciplinary

ToRCH2019 Corpus 04

ToRCH2019 (Texts of Recent CHinese 2019) is a Brown-family corpus of Chinese containing one million words. The majority of its texts were published in 2019.

Written ChineseOne million words