Corpora

1. DICKENS: The CWB Demo corpus more/less
   14 Novels by Charles Dickens, tagged for POS and for NP and PP chunks.

   IMS Corpus Workbench -- Demonstration Corpus
   Size: 3.4 million tokens

   This corpus is a collection of novels by Charles Dickens:

   • A Christmas Carol
   • - David Copperfield
   • - Dombey and Son
   • - Great Expectations
   • - Hard Times
   • - Master Humphrey's Clock
   • - Nicholas Nickleby
   • - Oliver Twist
   • - Our Mutual Friend
   • - Sketches by BOZ
   • - A Tale of Two Cities
   • - The Old Curiosity Shop
   • - The Pickwick Papers
   • - Three Ghost Stories

   The text is derived from several Etext editions of Project Gutenberg. It was tokenised, part-of-speech tagged and lemmatised with Helmut Schmid's TreeTagger, and chunk-parsed with the Gramotron PCFG for English developed at the IMS.

   It includes two (Master Humphrey's Clock and Three Ghost Stories) not in Masahiro Hori, Investigating Dickens' Style: A Collocational Analysis

2. DICKENS-2: Eleven more works by CD more/less

   This is Dickens, II; complementing the CWB Demo Corpus to emulate Masahiro Hori's Corpus. (Master Humphrey's Clock and Three Ghost Stores are in Dickens I but not Hori.) Size: 1,727,451 tokens by wc; by cwb, 2,111,000 (the usual 20%).

   This corpus is a collection of novels by Charles Dickens:

   • American Notes
   • Barnaby Rudge
   • The Battle of Life
   • Bleak House
   • The Chimes
   • The Cricket on the Hearth
   • The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
   • Little Dorrit
   • Martin Chuzzelwit
   • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
   • The Uncommercial Travaller
3. OANC-CWB: The Open American National Corpus, tagged for CQP. more/less