Corpus processing tools

Abstract

A corpus, plural corpora, is a collection of texts or speech stored in an electronic machine-readable format. A few years ago, large electronic corpora of more than a million of words were rare, expensive, or simply not available. At present, huge quantities of texts are accessible in many languages of the world. They can easily be collected from a variety of sources, most notably the Internet, where corpora of hundreds of millions of words are within the reach of most computational linguists.