English corpora - ICE and LOB

Imran Ho (imran.ho@stonebow.otago.ac.nz)
Tue, 7 May 1996 13:13:05 +1200 (NZST)

I am looking into the semantic distributions and frequencies of several
prepositional items across ENL:ESL corpora. The ESL corpora is based on
recent texts while the texts in the LOB are at least 30 years old.

a)Is there a corpus organised in the same structure as LOB but uses texts
written/published in the 80s-90s?

b)I know of the ICE corpora but does not have any experience with the
corpus, is it organised in the same manner as LOB? and is it available to
other researcher?