Corpora

• Internet corpora developed by Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) (free)
• Sketch Engine — Corpus Query System, includes WebBootCat (non-free, demo available)

Wordlists

Wordlists — generated with Wordsmith Tools, useful for keywords extraction

• German
• English
• Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Russian (Windows1251 encoding) extracted from a subset of Serge Sharoff's Internet corpus

Downloadable corpora

In this section you'll find small, AntConc-friendly reference corpora that can also be used for keyword extraction.

Subsets of the larger web corpora built by the Wacky bunch:

• DEWAC subset — a small (~ 1M words) web corpus of German (subset of the deWaC corpus)
• FRWAC subset — a small (~ 1M words) web corpus of French (subset of the frWaC corpus)
• ITWAC subset — a small (~ 1M words) web corpus of Italian (subset of the itWaC corpus)
• RUWAC subset — a small (~ 4.2M words) web corpus of Russian (subset of Serge Sharoff's Internet corpus, UTF8 version)
• RUWAC subset — a small (~ 4.2M words) web corpus of Russian (subset of Serge Sharoff's Internet corpus, Windows 1251)
• UKWAC subset — a small (~ 1M words) web corpus of English (subset of the ukWaC corpus)

Small web corpora created by our students using BootCaT:

• ESBootcat a small (~ 6.2M words) web corpus of Spanish
• NLBootcat a small (~ 2.4M words) web corpus of Dutch