http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/events/apclc2014/
The aim of the APCLC 2014 is to bring together academics from around the world, and from the Asia Pacific area in particular, in order to report on the varied developments in the use of and investigation into corpora in linguistics, language...
Ure, J (1971). Lexical density and register differentiation. In G. Perren and J.L.M. Trim (eds), Applications of Linguistics, London: Cambridge University Press. 443-452.
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http://language.sakura.ne.jp/icnale/download.html
A collection of 1M+ words of controlled essays written by English learners in 11 countries and areas in Asia.
Project Leader: Dr. Shin'ichiro Ishikawa, Kobe University, Japan
The International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English...
A very sizable USENET corpus available for free download
http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~westburylab/downloads/usenetcorpus.download.html
Corpus size: over 25 billion words
Data size: over 28gb, compressed
The in-house expert, David Lee, has paved a way through the BNC jungle by his article:
Lee, D. (2001). Genres, registers, text types, domains, and styles: Clarifying the concepts and navigating a path through the BNC jungle. Language Learning & Technology, 5(3)...
At 6.7 million words, the HKFSC (2006-07) is up to now the world’s largest corpus of financial services texts.
Access to and use of the HKFSC is now freely available at http://langbank.engl.polyu.edu.hk/hkfsc/
provided by the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English...
Do you need Texts in more than 30 languages? Do you want to "hear" books? Do you want a chance to make contribution to benefit others?
Gutenburg project: A super choice.
FREE!!!
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
I have some texts with the the index information bracketed with angle brackets. Now I only need to count the words of the main body of the texts, i.e. the words of the index information must be excluded from the counting without being removed. I am wondering if there is any kind of software that...