What does ict stand for? Information, Communication, Technology

2.2. General corpus

This is a type of corpus which includes various types of texts, either written or spoken, on a variety of subjects. Sometimes it is called "reference corpus" concerning its function as a reference material for language learning, translation, etc. Some of the best-known general corpora are the 100-million words British National Corpus (BNC) and the 400- million Words Bank of English.

2.3. Comparable corpus

A corpus consisting of texts of the same type and content in different languages (e.g. legal contracts in English and French), or articles about linguistics from English and Persian journals. The ICE corpus (International Corpus of English) is a one-million word comparable corpus of different varieties of English.