Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 9.4
Categories of the Brown Corpus
Category
Number of
Sources
Example Source
A. Reportage
44
Chicago Tribune
B. Editorial
27
Christian Science Monitor
C. Reviews
17
Life
D. Religion
17
William Pollard: Physicist and
Christian
E. Skills and Hobbies
36
Joseph E. Choate: The American
Boating Scene
F. Popular Lore
48
David Boroff: Jewish Teen-Age
Culture
G. Belles Lettres, Biography,
Memoirs, and so on
75
Selma J. Cohen: Avant-Garde
Choreography
H. Miscellaneous
30
U. S. Dep't of Defense: Medicine
in National Defense
J. Learned
80
J. F. Vedder: Micrometeorites
K. General Fiction
29
David Stacton: The Judges of the
Secret Court
L. Mystery and Detective
Fiction
24
S. L. M. Barlow: Monologue of
Murder
M. Science Fiction
6
Jim Harmon: The Planet with
No Nightmare
N. Adventure and Western
Fiction
29
Paul Brock: Toughest Lawman
in the Old West
P. Romance and Love Story
29
Morley Callaghan: A Passion in
Rome
R. Humor
9
Evan Esar: Humorous English
Many corpora focus on specific domains. For example, the BioCreative corpora
[16] are from biology, the Switchboard corpus [17] contains telephone
conversations, and the European Parliament Proceedings Parallel Corpus [18] was
