The “International Corpus of English”
Greenbaum, Sidney (1988) ‘A Proposal for an International Corpus of English’, World Englishes 7: 315.
Nelson, Gerald (1996a) ‘The Design of the Corpus’, in S. Greenbaum (ed.), Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 27-35
Nelson, Gerald (1996b) ‘Markup Systems’, in S. Greenbaum (ed.), (op.cit.), pp36-53
- Each ICE Corpus is divided into 2,000 word text samples representing various kinds of spoken and written English
- 500 texts: 200 written, 300 spoken
- the texts in ICE-GB were collected between 1990 and 1996
- A fully tagged and parsed corpus is only as useful as the tools that are used to analyze it!