corpus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.
Inflected forms:
form: corpora
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corpuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corpusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corpi
pos: noun
tags: hypercorrect
plural
Senses:
gloss: A collection of written or spoken texts.
pos: noun
examples: No one suggests that Browning intended to mean vagina when he wrote “owls and bats, / Cowls and twats,” because the context does not allow for it, nor does the greater context of the Browning corpus.
A corpus approach is a useful methodology for observing, describing and interpreting the stylistic features of language in literary and non-literary texts.
Today, computer databases and corpora infinitely increase the ease of this type of research, but the collecting process remains essentially the same.
gloss: A collection of written or spoken texts.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
examples: Text corpora are being used in most current lexicographic projects. Applied linguistic research is another field where text corpora are welcome as an inexhaustible source of empirical information, a polygon for testing various linguistic tools – spell-checkers, OCRs, machine translation systems, NLP systems, etc.
Comparable corpora are made up of texts in different languages that may be related in various ways, but are not translations of each other. They may have nothing in common at all, or be on the same subject, of the same genre, or from the same chronological period, etc.
The Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus began in September 1984 as part of a research project into the automatic assignment of intonation […] The original design of the corpus was determined by the need to provide data for research into speech synthesis. As a result, unlike most other corpora currently being used in the computational linguistics field, the SEC exists in several forms. […] However, whatever the original motivation for compiling a corpus, it quickly becomes an object of interest in its own right. New users find it valuable for applications for which it was not designed.
gloss: A structure of a special character or function in the animal body.
pos: noun
examples: the corpus of the uterus
gloss: A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: About a hundred years ago in Germany, the publishing of corpuses of the ancient Greek coinages was started. […] The significance of those, and some other corpuses is exclusive, because they allowed an enormous amount of numismatic material kept in museum and private collections all over the world, to be studied and systematized.
An assessment in 1991 proposed publication of the results of this work in three stages: […] secondly, a corpus of the Roman pottery to present the type series and to discuss the fabrics and forms recovered, […]
gloss: The body of a man or animal.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Related words: Wiktionary:Corpora
Derived words: aligned parallel corpus
corpus callosum
corpus cavernosum
corpus cavernosum clitoridis
corpus cavernosum penis
corpus delicti
corpus language
corpus linguistics
corpus luteum
corpus manager
corpus spongiosum
corpus striatum
habeas corpus
metacorpus
noncorpus
procorpus
subcorpus
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مَتْن
roman: matn
lang: Arabic
word: مَكْنَز لُغَوِيّ
roman: maknaz luḡawiyy
lang: Belarusian
word: ко́рпус
roman: kórpus
lang: Belarusian
word: збор
roman: zbor
lang: Bulgarian
word: ко́рпус
roman: kórpus
lang: Catalan
word: corpus
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 語料庫 /语料库
roman: yǔliàokù
lang: Czech
word: korpus
lang: Danish
word: korpus
lang: Dutch
word: corpus
lang: Esperanto
word: tekstaro
lang: Esperanto
word: korpuso
lang: Estonian
word: korpus
lang: Finnish
word: korpus
lang: French
word: corpus
lang: German
word: Korpus
lang: German
word: Textkorpus
lang: Greek
word: σώμα
roman: sóma
lang: Greek
word: συλλογή
roman: syllogí
lang: Hungarian
word: korpusz
lang: Indonesian
word: korpus
lang: Italian
word: corpus
lang: Japanese
word: コーパス
roman: kōpasu
lang: Korean
word: 말뭉치
roman: malmungchi
lang: Korean
word: 코퍼스
roman: kopeoseu
lang: Macedonian
word: ко́рпус
roman: kórpus
lang: Māori
word: putunga kōrero
lang: Māori
word: whakaputunga
lang: Norwegian
word: korpus
lang: Persian
word: گنجینه نوشتگان
lang: Polish
word: korpus
lang: Portuguese
word: corpus
lang: Russian
word: ко́рпус
roman: kórpus
lang: Russian
word: собра́ние
roman: sobránije
lang: Slovak
word: korpus
lang: Slovene
word: korpus
lang: Spanish
word: corpus
lang: Swedish
word: korpus
lang: Swedish
word: språkbank
lang: Turkish
word: külliyat
lang: Ukrainian
word: ко́рпус
roman: kórpus
lang: Ukrainian
word: збі́рник
roman: zbírnyk
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngữ liệu