GERMAN CORPORA
1. Academic Texts [0.04m words]
2. Amnesty Articles [0.2m words]
3. French Presidential Website Pages [0.1m words]
German translations of 309 French texts. Downloaded from the website of the President of the French Republic. The texts include speeches, interviews, and addresses. See http://www.elysee.fr/president/accueil.1.html
4. European Commission [0.3m words]
21 texts, downloaded from the web portal of the European Union (http://europa.eu/). The texts include press releases, Treaty on European Union, EU Constitution, EU Monetary policy. Some texts may have been originally written in another language and translated into German.
5. European Parliament [27m words]
Speeches from the European Parliament, from 1996-2003 (non-German speeches translated into German by EP’s professional translators).
6. Fairy Tales [0.2m words]
50 German fairy tales. The authors of the texts are Goethe (7), Grimm (20), Hoffmann (5), Schiller (7), Gotthelf (3), Busch (2), Droste (1), Eichendorff (1), Keller (1), Kleist (1), Novalis (1), and Tieck (1). The average length of the text is 4,119 words.
7. Literary Classics [0.9m words]
8. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speeches [0.03m words]
9. Spiegel Online Articles [19m words]
10. Medical Abstracts [1m words]
11. De-news [1m words]
12. Deutschland Online [0.07m words]
13. Die Zeit [0.08m words]
[updated RK 28/05/10]