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词条 Corpus of Contemporary American English
释义

  1. Content

  2. Availability

  3. Queries

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. Bibliography

  7. External links

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The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is a more than 560-million-word corpus of American English. It was created by Mark Davies, Professor of Corpus Linguistics at Brigham Young University.[1]

Content

The corpus is composed of more than 560 million words from 220,225 texts, including 20 million words from each of the years 1990 through 2017. The most recent update was made in December 2017. The corpus is used by approximately tens of thousands of people each month,{{Citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=April 2018}} which may make it the most widely used "structured" corpus currently available.{{Citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=April 2018}}

For each year, the corpus is evenly divided between the following five genres: spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. The texts come from a variety of sources:

  • Spoken: (85 million words) Transcripts of unscripted conversation from nearly 150 different TV and radio programs.
  • Fiction: (81 million words) Short stories and plays, first chapters of books 1990–present, and movie scripts.
  • Popular magazines: (86 million words) Nearly 100 different magazines, from a range of domains such as news, health, home and gardening, women's, financial, religion, and sports.
  • Newspapers: (81 million words) Ten newspapers from across the US, with text from different sections of the newspapers, such as local news, opinion, sports, and the financial section.
  • Academic Journals: (81 million words) Nearly 100 different peer-reviewed journals. These were selected to cover the entire range of the Library of Congress Classification system.

Availability

The corpus is free to search through its web interface,[2] with a limit on the number of queries per day, and less-restricted access is available at cost.[3]

The full corpus texts are available for a further fee.[4]

Queries

  • The interface is the same as the BYU-BNC interface for the 100 million word British National Corpus, the 100 million word TIME Magazine corpus, and the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), 1810s–2000s (see links below)
  • Queries by word, phrase, alternates, substring, part of speech, lemma, synonyms (see below), and customized lists (see below)
  • The corpus is tagged by CLAWS, the same part of speech tagger that was used for the BNC and the TIME corpus
  • Chart listings (totals for all matching forms in each genre or year, 1990–present, as well as for subgenres) and table listings (frequency for each matching form in each genre or year)
  • Full collocates searching (up to ten words left and right of node word)
  • Re-sortable concordances, showing the most common words/strings to the left and right of the searched word
  • Comparisons between genres or time periods (e.g. collocates of 'chair' in fiction or academic, nouns with 'break the [N]' in newspapers or academic, adjectives that occur primarily in sports magazines, or verbs that are more common 2005–2010 than previously)
  • One-step comparisons of collocates of related words, to study semantic or cultural differences between words (e.g. comparison of collocates of 'small' and 'little', or 'Democrats' and 'Republicans', or 'men' and 'women', or 'rob' vs 'steal')
  • Users can include semantic information from a 60,000 entry thesaurus directly as part of the query syntax (e.g. frequency and distribution of synonyms of 'beautiful', synonyms of 'strong' occurring in fiction but not academic, synonyms of 'clean' + noun ('clean the floor', 'washed the dishes'))
  • Users can also create their own 'customized' word lists, and then re-use these as part of subsequent queries (e.g. lists related to a particular semantic category (clothes, foods, emotions), or a user-defined part of speech)
  • Note that the corpus is only available through the web interface, due to copyright restrictions.

See also

  • American National Corpus
  • British National Corpus
  • Bank of English
  • Brown Corpus

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/COCA/background.html |title=The Corpus of Contemporary American English: Background and history |work=VARIENG |first=Henri |last=Kauhanen |date=2011-03-21 |accessdate=2011-10-13}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Corpus of Contemporary American English|url=http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/|website=Corpus of Contemporary American English|accessdate=20 July 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=BYU corpora: Premium|url=http://corpus.byu.edu/premium.asp|website=BYU corpora|accessdate=20 July 2017}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Corpus data: Purchase|url=http://www.corpusdata.org/purchase.asp|accessdate=20 July 2017}}

Bibliography

{{Refbegin|30em}}
  • {{Cite journal

| last=Davies
| first=Mark
| title=The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the First Reliable Monitor Corpus of English
| work = Literary and Linguistic Computing
| volume=25
| issue=4
| pages=447–65
| year=2010
| doi = 10.1093/llc/fqq018
}}
  • {{Cite book

| last = Bennett
| first = Gena R.
| title = Using Corpora in the Language Learning Classroom: Corpus Linguistics for Teachers.
| publisher = University of Michigan
| location = Ann Arbor, Michigan
| pages = 144
| isbn = 978-0-472-03385-0
| year = 2010
}}
  • {{Cite journal

| last = Davies
| first = Mark
| title = More than a peephole: Using large and diverse online corpora
| work = International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
| volume = 15
| issue = 3
| pages = 405–11
| year = 2010
| doi = 10.1075/ijcl.15.3.13dav
}}
  • {{Citation

| last1 = Anderson
| first1 = Wendy
| first2 = John
| last2 = Corbett
| title = Exploring English with Online Corpora
| publisher = Palgrave Macmillan
| year = 2009
| pages = 205
| isbn = 978-0-230-55140-4
}}
  • {{Cite journal

| last=Davies
| first=Mark
| title=The 385+ Million Word Corpus of Contemporary American English (1990–present)
| work = International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
| publisher = John Benjamins Publishing Company
| volume = 14
| issue = 2
| pages = 159–190(32)
| year = 2009
| doi = 10.1075/ijcl.14.2.02dav
}}
  • {{Cite book

| last=Lindquist
| first=Hans
| title=Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
| publisher = Edinburgh University Press
| year=2009
| isbn = 978-0-7486-2615-1
}}
  • {{Cite journal

| last = Davies
| first = Mark
| title = The advantage of using relational databases for large corpora: Speed, advanced queries, and unlimited annotation
| work = International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
| volume = 10
| issue = 3
| pages = 307–334(28)
| publisher = John Benjamins Publishing Company
| year=2005
| doi = 10.1075/ijcl.10.3.02dav
}}{{Refend}}

External links

  • {{Official website}}
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