Examples of Corpora

• Brown Corpus. A tagged corpus of about a million words put together at Brown University during the 1960s and 1970s. 
  
  Brown corpus is balanced. It was intended as a representative example of American English. It contains texts of different genres including newspapers, fiction, scientific text, legal text, and others.
  
  
• Lancaster Oslo Bergen (LOB) Corpus: A British English replication of the Brown Corpus
  
  
• Suzanne Corpus: A 130K word subset of the Brown Corpus (freely available) which is annotated with the syntactic structure of sentences.
  
  
• Penn Treebank. A corpus of parsed sentences based on text from the Wall Street Journal.
  
  
• Canadian Hansards: bilingual corpus of the proceedings of the Canadian parliament Contains parallel texts in English and French which have been used to investigate statistically based machine translation.
  
  
• WordNet: An electronic dictionary of English. Words are organised into a hierarchy, rather like a thesaurus. Each node consists of a synset of words with identical or near identical meanings.