BROWN CORPUS, The
BROWN CORPUS, The. A pioneering computer-based CORPUS of 1m running words of English developed in the US in 1963–4 by Henry Kucera and W. Nelson Francis at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, for the statistical analysis of words in texts. Representative extracts of 2,000 words each were taken from a selection of texts that sought to balance registers, styles, and genres, and included material from newspapers, scientific writing, romantic novels, and westerns.
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Robert Browning , Browning, Robert
BORN: 1812, Camberwell, England
DIED: 1889, Venice, Italy
NATIONALITY: British
GENRE: Poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
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