Corpora: Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English
Corpus-Manager@vuw.ac.nz
Tue, 08 Sep 1998 16:32:11 +1200
The transcripts from the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English
(WSC) are now available. The WSC comprises one million words and was
collected in the years 1988 to 1994. Both monologue and dialogue categories
are included and there is broadcast as well as private material collected
in a range of settings. The majority of the texts are informal - 750,000
words. The WSC will be available on the new ICAME CD (International
Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) at the Norwegian
Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen, Norway).
It is also available on CD at a cost of NZ$100 for individuals and NZ$200
for institutions from the Manager, Wellington Corpora of New Zealand
English, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria
University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND. Email:
Corpus-Manager@vuw.ac.nz
This CD also contains the Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English
(WWC), one million words of written New Zealand English collected from
writings published in the years 1986 to 1990. The WWC has the same basic
categories as the Brown Corpus of written American English (1961) and the
Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen corpus (LOB) of written British English (1961). The
corpus also parallels the structure of the Macquarie Corpus of written
Australian English (1986). The WWC consists of 2,000 word excerpts on a
variety of topics. Text categories include press material, religious texts,
skills, trades and hobbies, popular lore, biography, scholarly writing and
fiction.