CORPUS
1. A collection of texts, especially if complete and self-contained: the corpus of Anglo-Saxon verse
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2. In contemporary LINGUISTICS and LEXICOGRAPHY, a body of texts, utterances, or other specimens considered more or less representative of a language, a language area, a writer's work, etc., usually stored as an electronic database. Currently, computer corpora may store millions of running words whose features can be analysed by means of tagging (adding identifying and classifying tags to words and other formations) and concordancing programs (which draw up citations of words in context). Corpora of this kind can be created in three ways: (1) by keying texts into a computer and storing on disk; (2) by using optical equipment to scan text directly on to disk; (3) by acquiring MACHINE-READABLE texts directly from such sources as newspapers and publishers. In recent years, many print media have made their own corpora (for example, a year's issues of a newspaper), storing and marketing them on CD-ROMs which can be scanned and searched on screen. Such collections are of considerable interest to linguists, lexicographers, and others. Corpus linguistics is the study of corpora and the nature and use of the data in corpora. See BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS, BROWN CORPUS, COBUILD, CONCORDANCE, GRAMMATICALITY, HYPERTEXT, INTERNATIONAL CORPUS OF ENGLISH, LONDON-LUND CORPUS, USAGE.
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cor·pus / ˈkôrpəs/ • n. (pl. -po·ra / -pərə/ or -pus·es) 1. a collection of written texts, esp. the entire works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject: the Darwinian corpus. ∎ a collection of written or spoken material in machine-readable form, assembled for the purpose of studying linguistic structures, frequencies, etc.2. Anat. the main body or mass of a structure. ∎ the central part of the stomach, between the fundus and the antrum.
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[Latin, Body, aggregate, or mass.]
Corpus might be used to mean a human body, or a body or group of laws. The term is used often in civil law to denote a substantial or positive fact, as opposed to one that is ambiguous. The corpus of a trust is the sum of money or property that is set aside to produce income for a named beneficiary. In the law of estates, the corpus of an estate is the amount of property left when an individual dies. Corpus juris means a body of law or a body of the law. Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.®) is an all-inclusive, multivolume legal encyclopedia.
corpus
1. The body of a pollen grain that has bladders, or air-filled sacs (e.g. Pinus).
2. In angiosperms, the cells below the tunica of the apical meristem.
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Corpus is now also used for a collection of written or spoken material in machine-readable form, assembled for the purpose of studying linguistic structures and frequencies.
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Corpus
collection of writings on a subject; writings by an author or group of authors.
Examples: corpus of Christian tradition, 1865; of civil law, 1727; of Oriental numismatics, 1886; of the Greek poets, 1727; of scripture, 1876.