The term language corpus is used to mean a number of rather different things. It may refer simply to any collection of linguistic data (for example, written, spoken, signed, or multimodal), although many practitioners prefer to reserve it for collections which have been organized or collected with a particular end in view, generally to characterize a particular state or variety of one or more languages. A text corpus is a large and unstructured set of texts (nowadays usually electronically stored and processed) used to do statistical analysis and hypothesis testing, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules within a specific language territory.
Language Corpora