International Corpus of English (ICE) Homepage @ ICE-corpora.net

The International Corpus of English (ICE) began in 1990 with the primary aim of collecting material for comparative studies of English worldwide. Twenty research teams around the world are preparing electronic corpora of their own national or regional variety of English. Each ICE corpus consists of one million words of spoken and written English produced after 1989. For most participating countries, the ICE project is stimulating the first systematic investigation of the national variety. To ensure compatibility among the component corpora, each team is following a common corpus design, as well as a common scheme for grammatical annotation.

UPDATES:
1. In some earlier downloads of the ICE India corpus, the file S1A-015 was corrupted. You can download a clean version here.

2. In ICE Canada, the Codes for the Metadata have been added to the download. If you have already downloaded the corpus, you can download the Codes as a separate .pdf file here.

I am very pleased to welcome our latest ICE team, ICE Bahamas.
The ICE Bahamas project is directed by Dr Stephanie Hackert at the University of Augsburg, Germany.

I am very pleased to announce the release of the ICE Canada corpus.
The corpus is available to download under licence from this site.

The ICE Jamaica corpus is now available to download under licence from this site.

The ICE Ireland corpus is now available for academic research. Also available is ICE Ireland: A User's Guide, by Dr John Kirk (Belfast) and Dr Jeffrey Kallen (Dublin). For more information, see the ICE Ireland website.

Contact information: Professor Gerald Nelson, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR. Email: geraldanelson@gmail.com Fax: +852 2603 5270