A collection of Genre-specific English corpora

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. ROMANCE FICTION: A corpus of online Romance Fiction more/less
   collected with two BootCat(Yahoo!) searches (Dec. 2007); all samples of ebooks removed. Seeds (five/search) were: trembling body (33), hands slid (51), cupped (122), surge of anger (31), slipped his hands (40), gleam in his eyes (38), murmured (433), said softly (224), her midriff (45), pulled her (276), cynical smile (6),
4. ROMFIC - www.fanfiction.net more/less
   Webcorp search (using AV) of specified domain; merged search results using: curve of her breast/s, slipped his arms around her waist, her trembling, her midriff, desperate longing 3.87M tokens by wc. Collected Dec. 2007. Cf. Notes on Spiders.
5. CRIME EZINES: Corpus collected from crime (and mystery) ezines.more/less
   Most of the recent writing on line in eight or nine ezines. Colllected January 2008.

   • www.demolitionmag.com
   • www.darkestbefore.blogspot.com
   • www.hardluckstories.com
   • www.fourstory.org
   • www.mystericale.com
   • www.newmysteryreader.com
   • www.secondbestthief.com
   • www.strandmag.com
   • www.mouthfulofbullets.com
   • www.orchardpressmysteries.com
   • www.crimedownunder.com/Outpost
   • pulppusher.moonfruit.com
   • www.thrillingdetective.com
   • www.thuglit.com/zine
   • spinetinglermagazine.blogspot.com
6. (Large, balanced cqp-corpora of UK and Internet English)
7. OANC-CWB: The Open American National Corpus, tagged for CQP. more/less