Collection of the Corpus of Professional English (COPE)

Project Web Site: http://www.perc21.org

Date: 01 Jan 04 - 31 Oct 04
Sponsor: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Project ID: 03/3072
Award: £ 2,000
Keywords: professional English, corpus linguistics; lexicography
Internal Code: CSD7717

Summary

The Corpus of Professional English (CPE) is a major research project of PERC currently underway that, when finished, will consist of a 100-million-word computerized database of English used by professionals in science, engineering, technology and other fields.

Principal Investigator - Lancaster: Paul Rayson
Partner: Meikai University
Research Theme: Cooperative & Interactive Systems
Related Links: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/

Related Publications

Rayson, P., Tono, Y., Morita, Y., Hoshino, M., Nakamura, T., Aizawa, H., Watanabe, R., (2005), "Building a Corpus of Professional English", Presented as a poster at the Corpus Linguistics 2005 conference, July 14-17, Birmingham, UK.

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