SHACHI - Language Resource Metadata Database

The kicktionary is a multilingual (German – English – French) electronic dictionary of the language of football (soccer). It was developed between September 2005 and July 2006 during my stay as a visiting researcher at the FrameNet project at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley.

The present corpus of Indian Written English2 is comparable to the Brown and the LOB corpora. It is intended to serve as source material for comparative studies of American, British and Indian English which in its turn is excepted to lead to comprehensive description of Indian English.The Indian Corpus is intended to be a representative corpus of sample texts printed and published in 1978. The texts were largely selected by stratified random sampling process.

During his stay as a visiting professor at the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1991, Prof. Schmied learned of the vast resources available in the University's Founders' Library and worked out an arrangement with the library staff for their collaboration in the building of a corpus of Early Modern English. The main objective of the project was to fill a gap in the market of historical corpora, which lacked a balanced corpus with complete texts for text-linguistic and stylistic analysis. The time-span selected for the corpus was 1640 to 1740, as this appeared to be a highly interesting one in terms of both language change and historical developments during the period.

The Lancaster Parsed Corpus is a corpus of British English sentences excerpted from printed publications of the year 1961.The Parsed Corpus is a subset of the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (= LOB Corpus).Each sentence in the Parsed Corpus has undergone a syntactic analysis in the form of a phrase marker, or labelled bracketing.

Research into speech synthesis requires some study of the relationship between the orthographic and prosodic representations of speech. The SEC material, therefore, has been transcribed orthographically and prosodically, both these versions being generated independently from an unpunctuated version.

The goal of the Survey of English Usage is to provide the resources for accurate descriptions of die grammar of adult educated speakers of English. For that purpose the major activity of the Survey has been the assembly and analysis of a corpus comprising samples of different types of spoken and written British English. The original target for the corpus of one million words has now been reached, and the corpus is therefore complete.

All Longman dictionaries are compiled using the Longman Corpus Network – a huge database of 330 million words from a wide range of real-life sources such as books, newspapers and magazines. All the information in our dictionaries, including example sentences, is based on this corpus so you only see real English, as it is really used.

Students and teachers throughout the world send in essays and exam scripts to help us create the Longman Learners' Corpus, a 10 million word computerized database made up entirely of language written by students of English. Every nationality, every language level is represented in the corpus and this provides an unprecedented insight into learner English.

The Longman American Spoken Corpus is a brand new initiative and comprises 5 million words of text. The gathering of recordings was undertaken for Longman by the University of California at Santa Barbara. It represents the everyday conversations of more than 1000 Americans of various age groups, levels of education, and ethnicity, and includes speakers from over 30 US States. The recorded speech is transcribed onto a computer database and analyzed by our lexicographers to determine frequency of use, precise meanings and typical phrases that students need to study.

The Longman Written American Corpus is a dynamic corpus of 100 million words comprising running text from newspapers, journals, magazines, best-selling novels, technical and scientific writing, and coffee-table books. The composition of the corpus is constantly being refined and new material added. The design of the Longman Written American Corpus is based on the general design principles of the Longman Lancaster English Language Corpus and the written component of the British National Corpus. Like other corpuses in the Longman Corpus Network, words can be concordanced, wordlists created, and statistical features analysed, allowing lexicographers to compare and contrast usage in British and American English.