Re: Financial Services Corpus

Hi
Please see W0028 in the ELDA catalogue (http://www.elda.org/):
the Wolverhampton Business English Corpus (available since 14/8/2001)
contains 10 million words of business texts from websites:
" product descriptions, company press releases, and annual financial reports,
to business journalism, academic research papers, political speeches 
and government reports. "

Best
Ramesh

At 17:47 05/12/2006, Tony Berber Sardinha wrote:
> Dear Esther
>
> We have collected a similar corpus, as part of our DIRECT Project
> (www2.lael.pucsp.br/direct -- most of the info there is in
> Portuguese, though).
>
> best
> Tony
> www2.lael.pucsp.br/~tony
>
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 8:43 AM, RCPCE PolyU wrote:
>
> > The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Research Centre for
> > Professional Communication in English is building up a Financial
> > Services Corpus in Hong Kong. We have been collecting annual
> > reports, prospectuses of listed companies, speeches of government
> > regulatory bodies and etc. We would like to see if anyone or any
> > organisation, is doing something similar --- also working on a
> > financial corpus. Thanks!
> >
> > Esther.
> >
> > RCPCE
> > Research Centre for Professional Communication in English
> > English Department, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > -----------------
> > http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/RCPCE/
> > Tel : (852) 2766 4364
> > Fax: (852) 2333 6569

Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Lecturer in English Studies, School of Languages and Social Sciences, 
Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
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