May I refer you to the excellent list of Frequently Asked Questions (the
FAQ) of the Language Technology Group at the University of Edinburgh. In
particular, the following link addresses your question:
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/helpdesk/faq/Texts-html/0040.html
I'd also like to encourage others on the Corpora list who have the time and
the energy to contribute to that FAQ.
Take care,
--Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Marie Stevenson [mailto:marie@educ.uva.nl]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 1998 2:13 PM
To: corpora@hd.uib.no
Subject: Corpora: english corpus
Dear 'To whom it may concern',
I work at the faculty of Pedagogical Science at in the University of
Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I am developing a receptive vocabulary test
for English. To help me do this, I am looking for a list of the 5000 most
frequent words in the English language.
Is there anybody on this planet who can help me with this quest?
Marie Stevenson