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In linguistics, a corpus (plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed). They are used to do statistical analysis, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules on a specific universe. A corpus may contain texts in a single language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual corpus). Multilingual corpora that have been specially formatted for side-by-side comparison are called aligned parallel corpora.
In order to make the corpora more useful for doing linguistic research, they're often subjected to a process known as annotation. An example of annotating a corpus is part-of-speech tagging, or POS-tagging, in which information about each word's part of speech (verb, noun, adjective, etc.) is added to the corpus in the form of tags. Another example is indicating the lemma (base) form of each word. When the language of the corpus isn't a working language of the researchers who use it, interlinear glossing is used to make the annotation bilingual.
Corpora are the main knowledge base in corpus linguistics. The analysis and processing of various types of corpora are also the subject of much work in computational linguistics, speech recognition and machine translation, where they're often used to create hidden Markov models for POS-tagging and other purposes. Corpora and frequency lists derived from them are useful for language teaching.

Archaeological corpora

Text corpora are also used in the study of historical documents, for example in attempts to decipher ancient scripts, or in Biblical scholarship. Some archaeological corpora can be of such short duration that they provide a snapshot in time. One of the shortest corpora in time, may be the 15-30 year Amarna letters texts-(1350 BC). The corpus of an ancient city, (for example the "Kültepe Texts" of Turkey), may go through a series of corpora, determined by their find site dates.

Some notable text corpora

English language:

American National Corpus
Bank of English
British National Corpus
Corpus Juris Secundum
Corpus of American English 360 million words, 1990-2007. Freely available online.
Brown Corpus
Oxford English Corpus
Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech Other languages:
Amarna letters, (for Akkadian, Egyptian, Sumerogram's, etc.)
Bijankhan Corpus A Contemporary Persian Corpus for NLP researches
Croatian National Corpus
Hamshahri Corpus A Contemporary Persian Corpus for IR researches
Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Persian Today Corpus
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Ancient Greek)

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