COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...
in 1980 and funded by
Collins publishers.
The facility was initially led by professor
John Sinclair. The most important achievements of the COBUILD project have been the creation and analysis of an electronic
corpus
Corpus (plural ''corpora'') is Latin for "body". It may refer to:
Linguistics
* Text corpus, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts
* Speech corpus, in linguistics, a large set of speech audio files
* Corpus linguistics, a branch of ...
of contemporary text, the ''Collins Corpus'', later leading to the development of the
Bank of English, and the production of the
monolingual learner's dictionary ''Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary'', based on the study of the COBUILD corpus and first published in 1987.
A collection of other dictionaries and grammars have also been published, all based exclusively on the evidence from the
Bank of English.
References
Further reading
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External links
COBUILD Reference
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1980 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1980
University of Birmingham
Online English dictionaries
Linguistic research institutes
Applied linguistics