Database Reference
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World Wide Web is the relevant corpus. Most corpora are much smaller. The
Brown Corpus [15] was the first million-word electronic corpus of English, created
in 1961 at Brown University. It includes text from around 500 sources, and the
source has been categorized into 15 genres, such as news, editorial, fiction, and so
on.
Table 9.4
lists the genres of the Brown Corpus as an example of how to organize
information in a corpus.
