ICAME CORPUS COLLECTION - INFORMATION

 

Brown Corpus, untagged text format I

A revised version of the Brown Corpus with upper- and lower-case letters and other features which reduce the need for special codes and make the material more easily readable. A number of errors found during the tagging of the corpus have been corrected. Typographical information is preserved; the same line division is used as in the original version from Brown University except that words at the end of the line are never divided.

Example:
A01 0010    The Fulton County Grand Jury said Friday an investigation
A01 0020 of Atlanta's recent primary election produced "no evidence" that
A01 0030 any irregularities took place.   The jury further said in term-end
A01 0040 presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all 
A01 0050 charge of the election, "deserves the praise and thanks of the 
A01 0060 City of Atlanta" for the manner in which the election was conducted.

 

Brown Corpus, untagged text format II

This version is identical to text format I, but typographical information is reduced and the line division is new.

Example:
A01 0010  1       The Fulton County Grand Jury said Friday an investigation 
A01 0020  1    of Atlanta's recent primary election produced "no evidence"
A01 0020  9    that any irregularities took place. 
A01 0030  5       The jury further said in term-end presentments that
A01 0040  3    the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge 
A01 0050  2    of the election, "deserves the praise and thanks of 
A01 0050 11    the City of Atlanta" for the manner in which the election 
A01 0060 11    was conducted.

Brown Corpus, WordCruncher version

This is an indexed version of the Brown Corpus. It can only be used with WordCruncher. See the article by Randall Jones, ICAME Journal 11, pp. 44-47.

Example:
|CPress_Reportage 
|PA01 
|S1 The Fulton County Grand Jury said Friday an investigation of Atlanta's
recent primary election produced "no evidence" that any irregularities took
place. 
|S2 The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive
Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, "deserves the praise and 
thanks of the City of Atlanta" for the manner in which the election was 
conducted.

Conditions on the use of ICAME corpus material

The primary purposes of the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) are:

  1. collecting and distributing information on (i) English language material available for computer processing; and (ii) linguistic research completed or in progress on this material;
  2. compiling an archive of corpora to be located at the University of Bergen, from where copies of the material can be obtained at cost.

The following conditions govern the use of corpus material distributed through ICAME:

  1. No copies of corpora, or parts of corpora, are to be distributed under any circumstances without the written permission of ICAME.
  2. Print-outs of corpora, or parts thereof, are to be used for bona fide research of a non-profit nature. Holders of copies of corpora may not reproduce any texts, or parts of texts, for any purpose other than scholarly research without getting the written permission of the individual copyright holders, as listed in the manual or record sheet accompanying the corpus in question. (For material where there is no known copyright holder, the person(s) who originally prepared the material in computerized form will be regarded as the copyright holder(s).
  3. Commercial publishers and other non-academic organizations wishing to make use of part or all of a corpus or a print-out thereof must obtain permission from all the individual copyright holders involved.
  4. The person(s) who originally prepared the material in computerized form must be acknowledged in every subsequent use of it.

Use of ICAME texts within an institution

Though ICAME texts cannot be used and distributed outside the institution making the order, they can be freely used within the institution (department, faculty, university) for the purposes of research and teaching. To prevent any use of the material for commercial and profit-making purposes, it is advisable to limit access to registered computer users within the institution. The way this is done may vary depending upon the institution making the order.