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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.
News February 2010
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 next ICE Workshop will be held in Giessen, Germany, on Wednesday, 26 May 2010.
The ICELite Project has now been successfully completed, thanks to funding from the Arts Faculty, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A report on the project was presented during the ICE Workshop in Cebu, and is available here.
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: gnelson@arts.cuhk.edu.hk geraldnelson@asia.com Fax: +852 2603 5270
Contact information for individual ICE teams may be found here.
Last updated: 1 February 2010 © The ICE Project
Currently available ICE corpora:
| New! Canada* |
East Africa* |
Great Britain |
Hong Kong* |
India* |
New! Ireland |
New! Jamaica* |
New Zealand |
The Philippines* |
Singapore* |
Corpora
marked * may be downloaded under license from this site. Click here for details.
For details of how to obtain the other corpora listed above, click here.
ICE corpora are available for non-commercial,
academic research only.