Oxford English Corpus

Short description: Text corpus and database of 21st century English

The Oxford English Corpus (OEC) is a text corpus of 21st-century English, used by the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary and by Oxford University Press' language research programme. It is the largest corpus of its kind, containing nearly 2.1 billion words.[1] It includes language from the UK, the United States, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, Canada, India, Singapore, and South Africa.[2] The text is mainly collected from web pages; some printed texts, such as academic journals, have been collected to supplement particular subject areas.[2] The sources are writings of all sorts, from "literary novels and specialist journals to everyday newspapers and magazines and from Hansard to the language of blogs, emails, and social media".[2] This may be contrasted with similar databases that sample only a specific kind of writing. The corpus is generally available only to researchers at Oxford University Press, but other researchers who can demonstrate a strong need may apply for access.[2][3]

The digital version of the Oxford English Corpus is formatted in XML and usually analysed with Sketch Engine software.[4] By April 27, 2006, the dictionary database had 1 billion words. [5]

Each document in the OE Corpus is accompanied by metadata including:

* title
* author (if known; many websites make this difficult to determine reliably)
* author gender (if known)
* language type (e.g. British English, American English)
* source website
* year (+ date, if known)
* date of collection
* domain + subdomain
* document statistics (number of tokens, sentences, etc.)[4]

## See also

* British National Corpus
* Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
* American National Corpus
* Frequency analysis

## References

1. ↑ "The Oxford English Corpus". Sketch Engine. Lexical Computing CZ s.r.o.. https://www.sketchengine.co.uk/oxford-english-corpus/.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "The Oxford English Corpus". Oxford Dictionaries Online. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/the-oxford-english-corpus.
3. ↑ "Compare COCA". Corpus of Contemporary American English. http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/help/compare.asp.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Oxford English Corpus. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
5. ↑ "Dictionary database has billion words". Northwest Herald: p. 2. April 27, 2006. http://www.newspapers.com/image/205643445/.

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Corpus linguistics

Text corpora, English|

* American National Corpus
* Bank of English
* Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language
* British National Corpus
* Brown Corpus
* Buckeye Corpus
* Cambridge English Corpus
* Corpus of Contemporary American English
* Enron Corpus
* EnTenTen
* International Corpus of English
* Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus
* Oxford English Corpus
* PropBank
* Spoken English Corpus
* TIMIT
* VerbNet
* Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English

Text corpora, non-English|

* Bijankhan Corpus
* CHILDES
* Croatian Language Corpus
* Croatian National Corpus
* Czech National Corpus
* Europarl Corpus
* German Reference Corpus
* Hamshahri Corpus
* National Corpus of Polish
* Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
* Quranic Arabic Corpus
* Russian National Corpus
* Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
* Slovenian National Corpus
* TalkBank
* Tatoeba
* Tehran Monolingual Corpus
* Tekstaro de Esperanto
* TenTen Corpus Family
* Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Organizations|

* BNC consortium
* COBUILD
* Sketch Engine

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