Sentence:  The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English <WSD>Corpus</WSD> began in September 1984 as part of a research project into the automatic assignment of intonation ... The original design of the <WSD>corpus</WSD> was determined by the need to provide data for research into speech synthesis. As a result, unlike most other <WSD>corpora</WSD> currently being used in the computational linguistics field, the SEC exists in several forms. ... However, whatever the original motivation for compiling a <WSD>corpus</WSD>, it quickly becomes an object of interest in its own right. New users find it valuable for applications for which it was not designed. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.