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COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham
University International Language Database, is a British
research facility set up at the
University of Birmingham in 1980 and funded by
Collins publishers.
The facility was led by Professor
John Sinclair. The most important achievement of the COBUILD
project has been the creation and analysis of a
corpus of contemporary text (the
Bank of English), and the production of the
monolingual learner's dictionary Collins COBUILD English
Language Dictionary (1987, 2nd edition 1995, 3rd edition
2001, 4th edition 2003, 5th edition 2006), based on the study of
the COBUILD
corpus.
A number of other dictionaries and grammars have also been
published, all based exclusively on evidence from the
Bank of English.
See also
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Text corpus
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Corpus linguistics