what is corpora
Corpus is a large collection of texts. It is a body of written or spoken material upon which a linguistic analysis is based. The plural form of corpus is corpora. Some popular corpora are British National Corpus (BNC), COBUILD/Birmingham Corpus, IBM/Lancaster Spoken English Corpus.Monolingual corpora represent only one language while bilingual corpora represent two languages.n open corpus is one which does not claim to contain all data from a specific area while a closed corpus does claim to contain all or nearly all data from a particular field. Historical corpora, for example, are closed as there can be no further input to an area.