Ruth Möhlig writes:
> I have two questions:
>
> 1) is there any freely accessible, fairly recent corpus of American English
> (preferrably both written and spoken and preferrably searchable with
> Wordsmith)?
>
An American National Corpus is under development, which will suit your
description (see http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/anc)--but it will not
be available in even a primitive (ie.e., unannotated or validated)
form until some time next year.
Nancy Ide
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Nancy Ide
Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0520 USA
Tel: +1 845 437-5988 Fax: +1 845 437-7498
ide@cs.vassar.edu
Chercheur Invite
Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS
Campus Scientifique - BP 239
54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)3 83 59 20 47 Fax: +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79
ide@loria.fr
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