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== Text Corpus ==
== Text Corpus ==
In [[linguistics]], a ''corpus'' (plural '''corpora''') or textcorpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed). They are used to do statistical analysis, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules on a specific universe.
In [[linguistics]], a corpus (plural corpora) or textcorpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed). They are used to do statistical analysis, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules on a specific universe.
A corpus may contain texts in a single language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual corpus). Multilingual corpora that have been specially formatted for side-by-side comparison are called aligned parallel corpora.
A corpus may contain texts in a single language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual corpus). Multilingual corpora that have been specially formatted for side-by-side comparison are called aligned parallel corpora.
Corpora are the main knowledge base in corpus linguistics. The analysis and processing of various types of corpora are also the subject of much work in [[computational linguistics]], [[speech recognition]] and [[machine translation]], where they are often used to create hidden [[Markov]] models for POS-tagging and other purposes. Corpora and frequency lists derived from them are useful for language teaching.
Corpora are the main knowledge base in corpus linguistics. The analysis and processing of various types of corpora are also the subject of much work in [[computational linguistics]], [[speech recognition]] and [[machine translation]], where they are often used to create hidden [[Markov]] models for POS-tagging and other purposes. Corpora and frequency lists derived from them are useful for language teaching.
== Archaeological corpora ==
== Archaeological corpora ==
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