What does ict stand for? Information, Communication, Technology

2. What Is a Corpus?

Generally, a corpus can be defined as a collection of naturally occurring examples of language. A corpus includes no new information about language, but it gives new perspectives to linguistic researches and helps in the development of different processes such as language learning and teaching and translation.

Depending on the purpose and the form, different types of corpora may be distinguished.


2.1. Specialized corpus

Specialized corpus is a corpus which includes a particular type of texts. This specialization has no definite boundaries, but some criteria that specify the type of the text in question should be considered. Such corpora may contain either some texts specialized in terms of a particular timeframe (texts from 1822 to 1876) or a particular subject (art, politics, medicine) or some other factors. Some famous LSP (Language for Special Purposes) corpora are the 5-million word Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) and the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE).