COBUILD

COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the University of Birmingham in 1980 and funded by Collins publishers.

The facility was initially led by professor John Sinclair.[1] The most important achievements of the COBUILD project have been the creation and analysis of an electronic corpus of contemporary text, the Collins Corpus, later leading to the development of the Bank of English, and the production of the monolingual learner's dictionary Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary, based on the study of the COBUILD corpus and first published in 1987.[2]

A collection of other dictionaries and grammars have also been published, all based exclusively on the evidence from the Bank of English.

## References

1. ↑ "Who created COBUILD?". http://www.collins.co.uk/page/John+Sinclair.
2. ↑ "The History of COBUILD". http://www.collins.co.uk/page/The+History+of+COBUILD.

## Further reading

* Rosamund Moon (2009). Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the Work of John Sinclair. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 978-90-272-2248-0.

## External links

* COBUILD Reference

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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
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