RE: Newspaper article corpora

> Does anyone know of corpora devoted to English language 
> newspaper articles (possibly available online)?  I saw that 
> Reuters has developed one, but there are a few hurdles to 
> navigate in order to access it.

The BNC has about 10-11 million words from newspapers, and is available
as part of the VIEW site (http://view.byu.edu). 

This site also allows you to search just one part of the 100 million
word corpus (i.e. just the newspapers), so this may be a useful feature
for you. Finally, you can even zero in on just sub-registers of
newspapers (broadsheet, tabloid, sports reporting, etc).

Best,

Mark Davies

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Mark Davies
Assoc. Prof., Linguistics
Brigham Young University
(phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906

http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu

** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **

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