corpus
/ˈkɔɹpəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.64 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A collection of written or spoken texts.
noun
A collection of written or spoken texts.
noun
A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.
name
name
Example Sentences
- "No one suggests that Browning intended to mean vagina when he wrote “owls and bats, / Cowls and twats,” because the context does not allow for it, nor does the greater context of the Browning corpus."
- "A corpus approach is a useful methodology for observing, describing and interpreting the stylistic features of language in literary and non-literary texts."
- "Today, computer databases and corpora infinitely increase the ease of this type of research, but the collecting process remains essentially the same."
- "Text corpora are being used in most current lexicographic projects. Applied linguistic research is another field where text corpora are welcome as an inexhaustible source of empirical information, a polygon for testing various linguistic tools – spell-checkers, OCRs, machine translation systems, NLP systems, etc."
- "Comparable corpora are made up of texts in different languages that may be related in various ways, but are not translations of each other. They may have nothing in common at all, or be on the same subject, of the same genre, or from the same chronological period, etc."
- "The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus began in September 1984 as part of a research project into the automatic assignment of intonation […] The original design of the corpus was determined by the need to provide data for research into speech synthesis. As a result, unlike most other corpora currently being used in the computational linguistics field, the SEC exists in several forms. […] However, whatever the original motivation for compiling a corpus, it quickly becomes an object of interest in its own right. New users find it valuable for applications for which it was not designed."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *krep-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɔɹpəs/
- British English: /ˈkɔːpəs/