Corpora Available with an MSU login

• • • The MSU Libraries’ licensed and purchased Linguistic Corpora and Tools page, which requires an MSU login to access,  currently features 76 corpora and associated tools.

Learner Corpora

The following corpora may or may not require registration, university permission, or payment, to access.

• • • UCLouvain Corpora:
      • Written
        • ICLE: International Corpus of Learner English
        • LOCNESS: The Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays
      • Spoken
        • LINDSEI: Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage
        • LOCNEC: The Louvain Corpus of Native English Conversation
    • Gachon Korean Learner Corpus
    • CCLE: Corpus of Chinese Learner English
    • COWS-L2H: Corpus of Written Spanish- Heritage and L2
    • CROW: Corpus & Repository of Writing
    • BAWE: British Academic Written English Corpus
    • The LTTC English Learner Corpus (LTTC-ELC)
    • WRICLE: Written Corpus of Learner English
    • MICUSP: Michigan Corpus of Upper Level Student Papers
    • ICNALE: The International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English

Non-Learner Corpora in Various Languages

The following corpora may or may not require registration, university permission, or payment, to access.

• • • The Corpus del Español (Spanish)
    • English-Corpora.org
    • MICASE: Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English
    • Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English
    • Real Academia Española (Academic Spanish)
    • Arabic Corpus Tools
    • LCMC: The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese
    • Corpus Italiano (Web-Based Italian Corpus)
    • Tunisian Arabic Corpus
    • Russian National Corpus
    • The Oslo Corpus of Bosnian Texts
    • Thai National Corpus
    • NINJAL: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Corpus
    • The TS Turkish Corpus
    • Hellenic National Corpus (Greek)
    • FranText (French Corpus of Literary/Philosophy/Technical Texts)
    • KAIST: Korean Corpus Tools

Free and Fee-Based Corpus Tools

Free Tools

• • • LexTutor
    • AntConc
    • Voyant Tools
    • Unitok Corpus Tools
    • CLAWS: Part of Speech Tagger
    • kfnGram
    • Martin Weisser’s Software For Linguistics
    • Google Books N-Grams
    • NLP Tools For the Social Sciences
    • CoreNLP
    • The Center for Reading Research Tools
    • Authorial Voice Analyzer (AVA)

Fee-Based Tools

• • • Sketch Engine
    • Atlas.ti
    • MAXQDA
    • ParaConc

Corpus Tools/Sites For Teachers

Tools For Teachers

• • • Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments (Writing and Speech)
    • The Virtual Linguistics Campus
    • Mizumoto’s Automatic Word Suggestion Machine (AWSUM)

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Statistical Resources

• • • LangTest
    • The R Project For Statistical Reporting
    • Data Camp
    • R Markdown

Corpus Linguistics Journals

• • • The International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
    • Corpora
    • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
    • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (CLLT)
    • Applied Corpus Linguistics
    • Corporum: Journal of Corpus Linguistics
    • ICAME Journal

Professional Organizations and Other Corpus Labs

Professional Organizations

• • • Learner Corpus Association 
    • Association for Linguistic Typology
    • Association for Computational Linguistics Data Collection Initiative

Other Corpus Labs

• • • UF Corpus Linguistics Lab
    • Northern Arizona Corpus Research Lab
    • The UT Austin Computational Linguistics Lab
    • The UCL Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL)

Instructional Videos

Corpus-Related Talks

• • • Introduction to Machine Learning in R
    • Introduction to Topic Models With R
    • Introduction to Python for Corpus Research
    • Automatically Assessing Lexical Features in Learner Corpora
    • How can learner corpora help us better understand second language development?
    • Corpus-based curriculum development for ESP: needs analysis, materials development, assessment and evaluation
    • Using large corpora to look at genre-based, dialectal, and (especially) historical change in language
    • Corpus linguistics informing the language classroom

Video Tutorials

• • • Tutorial on The Corpus of Contemporary American English’s Newest 2020 Features
    • DukeWrites Enrichment Suite COCA (2020) Tutorials
    • Introduction to The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
    • The AntConc Youtube Channel
    • Tutorial on the Python Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
    • Tutorial For Using Sketch Engine
    • R For Corpus Linguistics