Corpus Resources
Curated links to corpora, concordancers, and tools for corpus-informed teaching and research. Adapted from the Corpus-Aided Platform (CAP) at EdUHK.
01 Online Corpora
BYU Corpora
Widely used suite of corpora and teaching resources.
British National Corpus (BNC)
100M words of British English (written + spoken).
COCA
Large, balanced American English corpus.
Compleat Lexical Tutor
Online tools for lexical analysis and pedagogy.
MICASE (spoken)
Academic spoken English transcripts (U-Michigan).
MICUSP (upper-level papers)
Upper-level student papers (written academic English).
IntelliText (Leeds CTS)
Search builder and POS editor interface.
BACKBONE (multilingual pedagogic spoken corpus)
Pedagogic spoken corpus with video; online search.
ICNALE (International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English)
Learner corpus with texts/audio from Asian EFL learners.
MOECS (Multilingual Opinion Essays by College Students)
Multilingual student essay corpus.
TECCL (Ten-thousand English Compositions of Chinese Learners)
Large Chinese learner corpus (raw and POS-tagged).
TED Corpus Search Engine
Search TED talk transcripts with links to videos.
WebParaNews (EN–JA parallel news)
Japanese–English parallel newspaper corpus.
SCoRE (Sentence Corpus of Remedial English)
Sentence corpus & pattern browser for lower-proficiency learners.
02 Online Corpora by EdUHK LML
LML Corpus Linguistics Projects
Department projects and showcases.
EAP Corpora
English for Academic Purposes collections.
Corpus-based Pronunciation Learning
Pronunciation learning with corpus support.
English–Chinese Parallel Concordancer
Parallel concordancer for EN–ZH.
03 Concordance & Collocation Tools
Word and Phrase
Collocations and full-text analysis (COCA-based).
Just The Word
BNC-based collocation finder.
Linggle
Web-scale collocation/phrase search.
Corpus Concordance English (Lextutor)
Simple online concordancer with sub-corpus options.
WebCorp Live
SkELL (Sketch Engine for Language Learning)
Simple concordances and word sketches; learner-friendly.
Skylight (browser concordancer)
In-browser concordancer for quick classroom materials.
Netspeak
Collocation/phrase suggestion engine from web data.
04 Corpus Tools
AntConc
Desktop toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.
WordSmith Tools
Windows suite for word pattern analysis.
VersaText
Explore the language of a single text.
Sketch Engine
400+ ready-to-use corpora in 90+ languages.
Verbal Stratagems
Communicative function phrase lists (agreeing, clarifying, etc.).
Cambridge English Vocabulary Profile
CEFR-level vocabulary profiles (A1–C2).
LancsBox
Toolkit with collocation network visualiser (GraphColl).
NoSketch Engine
Open-source variant of Sketch Engine for your own corpora.
TextSTAT
Lightweight concordancer/keyword counter; great for DIY corpora.
AntCorGen
Compile a research-article corpus from PLoS ONE.
ICEweb
DIY corpus-building interface for the ICE project.
05 Corpus-informed / Derived Resources
English Profile
CEFR-coded sense inventory & resources (broader than EVP).
FLAX
Corpus-derived OERs, games, and apps for learning.
New General Service List (NGSL)
High-frequency word lists (incl. Academic lists) with resources.
WriteAway
Corpus-grounded phrase/chunk suggestions for writing.
06 Learner Dictionaries & Bilingual Resources
Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary
CEFR-tagged senses, abundant examples.
Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries
Clear interface, rich learner examples.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Collocations & example-rich learner dictionary.
Merriam-Webster Learner’s Dictionary
US-oriented learner dictionary.
Linguee
Parallel examples from real-world translations.
PHaVE Dictionary (Phrasal Verbs)
Frequent phrasal verbs with sense distinctions & examples.
07 General Guides / Getting Started
Intro to Text Analysis (PSU Libraries)
Orientation to text analysis concepts & tools.
Text Mining – Web-based Resources (PSU Libraries)
Curated links to web tools & readings for text mining.