[Gllug] Large text corpus on DVD

F Andersen fendersan at aol.com
Wed Feb 27 22:21:11 UTC 2008


Richard Huxton wrote:
> Before I set off a mammoth download does anyone know of a supplier of 
> something like the Wikipedia text / Gutenberg compilation on DVD? I'm 
> not really concerned what it is, I'm just after a large body of English 
> to run text-searches against.
> 

Try the Oxford Text Archive?

See http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

I came across it while looking at a computational linguistics 
professor's website so it might help you.

You can order their texts on CD for a price (see their FAQ).
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