Corpus Finder

To sort corpora according to any attribute, click on the appropriate column header.
Use the filters to view a specific selection of corpora.
For explanations of the table categories, see below.

Corpus	Start	End	Periods	Word Count	Text Samples	Spoken/ Written	Annotation	Format	Availability
HC - Helsinki Corpus	730	1710	OE ME EModE	1,572,800	450	Written	Other	CD Download	License required
SCOTS - Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech	1945	2007	PDE	4,000,000	1177	Written & Spoken	Other None	Online	Open access
NECTE - Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English	1969	1994	PDE		62	Spoken	Other	Download DVD	Free subscription
HD - Helsinki Corpus of British English Dialects	1970	1985	PDE	1,008,641	187	Spoken	Other	On-site	Free subscription
CEEC - Corpus of Early English Correspondence	1403	1800	ME EModE LModE	5,100,000	12,000	Written	Parsing Other	CD Download	Free subscription
CEEC - Corpus of Early English Correspondence / 1998 version	1410	1681	ME EModE	2,597,795	5,961	Written	Other	On-site	Free subscription
CEECE - Corpus of Early English Correspondence Extension	1653	1800	EModE LModE	2,219,422	4,923	Written	Other	On-site	Free subscription
CEECSU - Corpus of Early English Correspondence Supplement	1402	1663	ME EModE	442,484	829	Written	Other	On-site	Free subscription
CEECS - Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler	1418	1680	ME EModE	450,085	1,123	Written	Other	CD Download	Free subscription
CEEC: PCEEC - Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence	1410	1681	ME EModE	2,159,132	4,970	Written	Tagging Parsing Other	Download	Free subscription
CEEM - Corpus of Early English Medical Writing	1375	1700	ME EModE	2,300,000	320	Written	Other	CD	Commercial
CEEM: MEMT - Middle English Medical Texts	1375	1500	ME	495,322	86	Written	Other	CD	Commercial
CEEM: EMEMT - Early Modern English Medical Texts	1500	1700	EModE	2,000,000	450	Written	Other	CD	Commercial
CEEM: LMEMT- Late Modern English Medical Texts			LModE			Written		-	In preparation
CIE - A Corpus of Irish English 14th – 20th c.	14c	present	ME EModE LModE PDE		70	Written	Other	CD	From compiler
ENPC - The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus	1975	1995	PDE	2,600,000	100	Written	Tagging Other	On-site	Free subscription
LOB - The Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus	1961	1961	PDE	1,000,000	500	Written	Tagging None	CD	License required
FRED - Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects	1970	1999	PDE	1,011,396	121	Written	Other	On-site CD	Free subscription
COERP - Corpus of English Religious Prose	1150	1800	ME EModE LModE			Written	Other	-	In preparation
CLMETEV - Corpus of Late Modern English Texts	1710	1920	LModE	15,000,000	176	Written	None	Download	Free subscription
LAEME - A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English	1150	1325	ME	816,170	167	Written	Other	Online	Open access
CSC - Corpus of Scottish Correspondence	1500	1715	EModE	256,300	719	Written	Other	Online	In preparation
HCOS - Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots	1450	1700	EModE	834,200	71	Written	Other	CD	License required
ELFA - English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings	2001	2008	PDE	1,010,834	165	Written & Spoken		CD	License required
BROWN - The Brown corpus	1961	1961	PDE	1,000,000	500	Written	Tagging Other None	CD	License required
PPCME2 - The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English, 2nd edition	1150	1500	ME	1,155,965	55	Written	Tagging Parsing None	CD	License required
PPCEME - The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English	1500	1710	EModE	1,794,010	229	Written	Tagging Parsing None	CD	License required
LC - The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts	1640	1740	EModE	1,193,385	120	Written	Other	CD Download	License required
CED - A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760	1560	1760	EModE	1,183,690	177	Written	Other	CD Download	License required
FLOB - The Freiburg-Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus	1992	1992	PDE	1,000,000	500	Written	Tagging None	CD	License required
FROWN - The Freiburg-Brown Corpus	1991	1991	PDE	1,000,000	500	Written	Tagging None	CD	License required
ZEN - Zurich English Newspaper corpus	1661	1791	EModE LModE	1,600,000	349	Written	Other	Online CD	Free subscription
YCCQA - Yahoo-based Contrastive Corpus of Questions and Answers	2006	2009	PDE	29,400,000	665,000	Written	Other	Download	Free subscription
DOEC - Dictionary of Old English Corpus	600	1150	OE	3,000,000	3060	Written	Other	CD	License required
SCONE - Seville Corpus of Northern English	600	1590	OE ME			Written	Other	Download	Open access
VOICE - Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English	2000	2007	PDE	1,023,043	151	Spoken	Other	Online	Free subscription
BLOB-1931- The Before LOB-1931 Corpus	1928	1934	PDE	1,000,000	500	Written	Tagging None	-	In preparation
MICASE - Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English	1997	2001	PDE	1,800,000	152	Spoken	Other	CD Download Online	Open access
MICUSP - Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers	2002	2009	PDE	2,600,000	829	Written	Other	Online	Open access
PPCMBE - The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Modern British English	1700	1914	LModE PDE	948,895	101	Written	Tagging Parsing None	CD	License required
BE06 - British English 06	2003	2008	PDE	1,010,996	500	Written	Tagging	Online	License required
Small Corpus of Political Speeches (SCPS)	1789	2010	PDE	655,479	239	Written & Spoken	Tagging	On-site	License required
COOEE - Corpus of Oz Early English	1788	1900	LModE	2,000,000	1353	Written	Other	-	Free subscription
A Corpus of late 18c Prose	1761	1790	LModE	300,000	1827	Written	None	Download	Free subscription
The John Swales Conference Corpus (JSCC)	2006	2006	PDE	100,000	23	Spoken	None	Download	Open access
The Middle English Grammar Corpus (MEG-C)	1350	1500	ME	450,000	320	Written	Other	Download	Open access
The York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE)	-	-	OE	1,500,000	100	Written	Tagging	Download	Free subscription
International Corpus of English - the British component (ICE-GB)	1990	1993	PDE	1,061,264	500	Written & Spoken	Tagging Parsing	CD	License required
The London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English (LLC)	1953	1987	PDE	500,000	100	Spoken	Other	CD	License required
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)	1990	2009	PDE	400,000,000	-	Written & Spoken	Tagging	Online	Free subscription
Helsinki Corpus of Regional English Speech (HARES)	1970	1980	PDE			Spoken	Other	Download	License required
A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers (ARCHER)	1659	1999	EModE LModE PDE	1,789,309	955	Written	None	On-site	Not available
TIME corpus	1923	2009	PDE	100,000,000	275,000	Written	Tagging	Online	Free subscription

Corpus Finder categories

Corpus	Some corpora consist of subcorpora (CEEC, CEEM). In these cases both the entire corpus and the subcorpora have been listed; the subcorpora are indented.
Start, End, Periods	The period labelling follows roughly the categorisation below unless a particular period is specified in the name of the corpus.
	OE	Old English c. -1300
	ME	Middle English c. 1300-1500
	EModE	Early Modern English c. 1500-1700
	LModE	Late Modern English c. 1700-1900
	PDE	Present Day English 1900-
Word count, Text samples	Left empty when the word count or number of text samples is unknown.
Spoken/Written	Shows whether the corpus material is from written sources, recorded speech or both.
Annotation	Tagging	Part-of-speech annotation
	Parsing	Syntactic annotation
	Other	Annotation of, e.g., discursive features, text structure, phonetic features, orthography, etc.
	None
Format	CD/DVD	The corpus is distributed on a disc.
	Download	The corpus can be downloaded from the internet.
	Online	The corpus is accessible online without downloading.
	On-site	The corpus can only be accessed locally.
Availability	Open access	The corpus is can be freely used by anyone.
	Free subscription	The corpus is free to use but requires a subscription.
	Licence required	A paid subscription is required.
	Commercial
	In preparation
	Not available	The corpus is not available to external users for copyright reasons.

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