Project Gutenberg English corpus
The Project Gutenberg English corpus is a corpus made up of all English e-books available in the Gutenberg database in October 2014.
- downloaded with wget: getting Gutenberg
- cleaned with justext (slightly changed algorithm)
- title and author sometimes retrievable from HTML META tags
Part-of-speech tagset
The Project Gutenberg English corpus was tagged by TreeTagger using Penn TreeBank tagset.
Tools to work with the Project Gutenberg English corpus
A complete set of tools is available to work with this Gutenberg corpus to generate:
- word sketch – collocations categorized by grammatical relations
- thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
- word lists – lists of nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
- n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
- concordance – examples in context
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