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Encyclopedia > COBUILD

COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the University of Birmingham in 1980 and funded by Collins publishers. The University of Birmingham is an English university in the city of Birmingham. ... Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow. ...


The facility was led by Professor John Sinclair. The most important achievement of the COBUILD project has been the creation and analysis of a corpus of contemporary text (the Bank of English), and the production of the monolingual learner's dictionary Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary (1987, 2nd edition 1995, 3rd edition 2001, 4th edition 2003, 5th edition 2006), based on the study of the COBUILD corpus. John McHardy Sinclair (1933 – ), Professor of Modern English Language at Birmingham University, 1965 – 2000. ... In linguistics, a corpus (plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed). ... The Bank of English is the name of the COBUILD corpus, a collection of English texts. ... Monolingual learners dictionaries are written for learners of a foreign language. ... Look up corpus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


A number of other dictionaries and grammars have also been published, all based exclusively on evidence from the Bank of English. The Bank of English is the name of the COBUILD corpus, a collection of English texts. ...


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