BLaRC: British Law Report Corpus
British Law English corpus is the 6-million-word English corpus of judicial decisions. Explore legal English with this corpus.
The British Law Report Corpus (BLaRC) is a British English corpus made up of judicial decisions issued by British courts and tribunals. The corpus consists of 8.5 million words of legal texts published in 2008–2010.
Part-of-speech tagset
The BLaRC corpus is tagged using English PennTreebank Tagset.
Tools to work with the British Law Reference Corpus
A complete set of tools is available to work with this BLaRC corpus of legal documents to generate:
- word sketch – English collocations categorized by grammatical relations
- thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
- keywords – terminology extraction of one-word and multi-word units
- word lists – lists of English nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
- n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
- concordance – examples in context
- text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus
Bibliography
RIZZO, Camino Rea; PÉREZ, Mª José Marín. Structure and design of the British Law Report Corpus (BLRC): a legal corpus of judicial decisions from the UK. Journal of English Studies, 2012, 10: 131-145.
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