The first
release of the American National Corpus contains over
10,000,000 words of written and spoken American English,
annotated for lemma and part of speech. It is available for
research and education for a nominal licensing fee from the
Linguistic Data
Consortium. Commercial users can obtain the corpus and
gain rights to use it in commercial products by joining the
ANC
Consortium.
Please consult the
LDCCatalog entry
for the ANC First Release
THE
DATA | ENCODING CONVENTIONS | FILE STRUCTURE | KNOWN BUGS AND CAVEATS
The First
Release of the ANC is a beta version
The texts included
in the first 10 million words of the ANC are those that were
first received. Therefore the corpus is not
balanced. There has
been no
hand-validation of the
XML tagging or the part of speech annotation
tags.Headers are
minimal, although they
contain fairly complete information concerning domain,
subdomain, subject, audience, and
medium.Check the
list of known bugs and caveats for a
description of the limitations we are currently aware
of.
One of the aims of
releasing this first 10 million words is to get feedback from
the community about its structure and annotation, so that
modifications can be made, if necessary, for the final
release of the full 100 million words. We therefore invite
comments and bug reports from the community of ANC users.
Please contact anc@cs.vassar.edu
.
