The Lancaster – Oslo/Bergen (LOB) Corpus is a million-word collection of present-day (1961) British English texts.
The corpus was compiled under the direction of Geoffrey Leech, University of Lancaster, and Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, in collaboration with Knut Hofland, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen. Like its American counterpart, the Brown Corpus (see Francis and Kucera 1979), it contains 500 text samples of approximately 2,000 words distributed over 15 text categories.
Part of the ICAME Corpus Collection.
The Lancaster – Oslo/Bergen (LOB) Corpus is a million-word collection of present-day (1961) British English texts.
The corpus was compiled under the direction of Geoffrey Leech, University of Lancaster, and Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, in collaboration with Knut Hofland, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen. Like its American counterpart, the Brown Corpus (see Francis and Kucera 1979), it contains 500 text samples of approximately 2,000 words distributed over 15 text categories.
Part of the ICAME Corpus Collection.
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description: The Lancaster – Oslo/Bergen (LOB) Corpus is a million-word collection of present-day (1961) British English texts.
The corpus was compiled under the direction of Geoffrey Leech, University of Lancaster, and Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, in collaboration with Knut Hofland, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen. Like its American counterpart, the Brown Corpus (see Francis and Kucera 1979), it contains 500 text samples of approximately 2,000 words distributed over 15 text categories.
Part of the ICAME Corpus Collection.
attribution Text: MANUAL OF INFORMATION TO ACCOMPANY THE LANCASTER-OSLO/BERGEN CORPUS OF BRITISH ENGLISH, FOR USE WITH DIGITAL COMPUTERS
by STIG JOHANSSON IN COLLABORATION WITH GEOFFREY N. LEECH and HELEN GOODLUCK
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, 1978
The Lancaster – Oslo/Bergen (LOB) Corpus is a million-word collection of present-day (1961) British English texts.
The corpus was compiled under the direction of Geoffrey Leech, University of Lancaster, and Stig Johansson, University of Oslo, in collaboration with Knut Hofland, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen. Like its American counterpart, the Brown Corpus (see Francis and Kucera 1979), it contains 500 text samples of approximately 2,000 words distributed over 15 text categories.
Part of the ICAME Corpus Collection.