Work

The American National Corpus: A Standardized Resource for American English

Year: 2000

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Catherine Macleod proposed creating an American National Corpus (ANC) that would compare with the British National Corpus (BNC) both in balance and in size (one hundred million words).This paper reports on the progress made over the past two years in launching the project.At present, the ANC project is well underway, with commitments for support and contribution of texts from a number of publishers world-wide.

Source: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)

DOI: 10.63317/37awmr3fvg6d

Authors: Catherine Macleod, Nancy Ide, Ralph Grishman

Institutions: New York University, Vassar College

Language: English

Topic: Lexicography and Language Studies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: American National Corpus: Planning and Exploration Workshop