Corpus Linguistics

Oxford Text Archive WEB site OTA FTP site. (Mirror ftp site for North America -- OTA.) Good starting point. Includes British novels, Dickens, Trollope, etc. The Susanne Corpus is in this archive in the directory pub/ota/public/susanne. For background info, see Susanne. OED Online

Project Gutenberg: (in English)
Some literary works such as "Moby Dick" and "Through the Looking Glass" are available electronically from Project Gutenberg.

Corpus of Spoken, Professional American-English The corpus is available commercially from Athelstan. There is a 50,000 word sample available online.

British National Corpus. A large (100 million words) corpus of modern English (1990's). BNC World Edition is now available. See also BNC Indexer

COBUILD offers access to a large corpus for a fee. Also has a free demo.

Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. CD-ROM. Written New Zealand English is also included. Corpus-Manager@vuw.ac.nz

Penn-Helsinki Corpus of Middle English

ICAME, Bergen. This is the ftp site. ICAME also produces an excellent CD-ROM containing Brown, LOB, London-Lund, and Helsinki corpora among others. Also the home of Corpora news-list. Also a web-site.

The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language

The TRAINS Spoken Dialogue Corpus

CCAT Archive Gopher site at U. Penn. A good site for classical, historical, and religious texts.

Voice of America News (Gopher)

CBC Canadian broadcasting. Includes sound files.

Marx & Engels Online Library

German

Mannheimer Corpora A very large, growing, online German corpus archive (778 million words in August 2000). A copyright-free portion of the archive (379 million words in August 2000) is freely searchable. Invited guests have access to the whole archive. Partially tagged.

German newspapers -- tagged corpus with syntactic structure annotated.

Hebrew

Spoken Israel Hebrew Description of the project.

Indo-European

Comparative Indo-European

Italian

Italian literature (LiberLiber)

Malay

Malay Classical literature. Searchable online.

Norwegian

Oslo Corpus of Tagged Norwegian Texts

Polish

Polish Newspaper

Portuguese (Brazilian)

News from Brazil

Russian

Russian literature

Russian foreign affairs articles I have not had much luck with this.

Russian word list gopher.

Scandinavian

Language Bank of Swedish Texts

Project Runeberg (Scandinavian classics)

Swedish

Spanish

South American oral and written texts available via ftp from lola.lllf.uam.es.

Spanish Syntax Research Group University of Santiago de Compostela. Information about ARTHUS (1.5 million words in modern Spanish) and syntactic database (BDS, 160.000 analysed clauses of ARTHUS). In progress: a medieval and classic Spanish corpus ("ARTHUS Medieval y Clasico).

"Maria" corpus Acquisition of Spanish.

Mexican Newspapers: El Nacional, La Jornada, etc.

Swedish

Bank of Swedish

Turkish

Learner corpora

Learner corpora Extensive information from Yukio Tono

Hungarian EFL Student Writing

ICLE - Brazilian Portuguese Sub-Corpus

Corpus searches

COSMAS search Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany.

IMS Stuttgart (Penn Treebank) search -- OLD LINK??

Cobuild Corpus Sampler

University of Michigan Middle English Collection

Michigan Early Modern English Materials

Web-based analysis of Gutenberg texts by Ron Reck. See also Corpus Access at the University of Essex.

VISL Project Denmark. English and German corpora can be searched.

Concordance of Great Books

British National Corpus Simple search

Word lists and Stop lists

French Stop list from Jean.

Zipped file of n-grams from the Brown Corpus

Software

Text analysis

COSMAS - A corpus analysis toolbox, online accessible since 1995, see COSMAS. 778 million words online, virtual corpus composition, complex query language, concordancing, collocation analysis etc.

MonoConc Pro. Commercial Windows concordance program (produced by me). See the Athelstan site.

MonoConc, a Mac/Windows concordance program that allows sorts (2R,1R,2L,1L) and provides simple frequency information.

ParaConc, a Mac/Windows concordance program for parallel texts. A version is available for free for research purposes (under license).

Conc, a Mac concordance program, is available via ftp from SIL. Also available by anonymous-ftp from clr.nmsu.edu (/clr.nmsu.edu:/CLR/tools/concordances).
Indiana University LETRS Conc QuickGuide.

Free Text, a Mac concordance program, should be available from the U. of Michigan site. Also available from ftp://nora.hd.uib.no/pub/mac/

HUM, developed by William Tuthill, is available by anonymous-ftp from clr.nmsu.edu (/clr.nmsu.edu:/CLR/tools/concordances).

Perl Dan Melamed's perl tools

Tact. Available via ftp from University of Toronto (epas.utoronto.ca).
Indiana University LETRS TACT QuickGuide
World Wide Web implementation of TACT -- TACTWeb. "TACTweb connects TACT to the World Wide Web-making a TACT TDB database accessible to the entire WWW community." See also Elisabeth Burr's site.

LEXA Corpus processing Software version 6 (for DOS) is available via ftp. This is a suite of programs for tagging, lemmatization, word frequency counts, etc.

TextAnalyst Commercial software that produces a semantic network on the basis of text input. The company, Megaputer also produces a data mining tool PolyAnalyst.

ShoeBox Fieldwork oriented program. Information available from SIL.

VisualText A suite of commercial text analysis tools.

Word Cruncher Info available from WPT

Paai's text utilities: A set of utilities consisting of unix-scripts and c-programs for frequency-counts and lexical cohesion.

Taggers

Eric Brill's program Ftp site.

TOSCA/LOB tagger for DOS. Downloadable.

AMALGAM Email tagging, conversion of tagsets, ...

TreeTagger Language-independent HMM tagger. Parameter files for English, French, German.

CRATER report. Discussion of a modified version of the Xerox Tagger.

The Corpus Linguistics Group at the University of Birmingham has an Experimental email tagger-QTAG Texts can be sent via email to tagger@clg.bham.ac.uk

CoreLex -- a tagset and database for semantic tagging based on WordNet