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Activity D: Very Large Corpora

For English, the UiO team has assessed the following:

* Reuters Corpus: custom license
* NANC: LDC-licensed
* GigaWords 5: LDC-licensed; newswire; 
* Wikipedia: Wikipedia Extractor (Wikipedia Corpus Builder on-going)
* COW: custom crawl; sentence-shuffled
* Common Crawl: 140 billion
* NOW:

So far, we have standardized on CoreNLP for corpus pre-processing, viz. sentence splitting, tokenization, part of speech tagging, and lemmatization. Each corpus is available in two forms: (a) ‘clean’ running text and (b) pre-processed into the CoNLL-like (tab-separated) output format of CoreNLP.