The BYU-Corpus of Early Modern English cover texts from 1475 – 1800 that were included in the Evans Bibliography, the Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) corrected by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) Evans Bibliography (University of Michigan).

Corpus linguistics is an approach to language research that utilizes a principled collection of texts (i.e., a corpus) in order to better understand patterns of language use. Analysis of these patterns can produce insight into, among other things, the meaning of words and phrases. Linguists (and lexicographers) have long understood that corpora are a vastly superior guide to interpretation than native speaker intuition or even dictionaries. With advances in computer technology, the use of corpus linguistics for research has expanded dramatically. Legal scholars and judges have only recently begun to tap the potential of this method because most are unaware of its possibilities.

Build an interface that delivers essential corpus linguistics tools and incorporates more than 20 years of library interface design.

The Corpus of Founding Era American English (COFEA) was original conceived as a set of texts from the period 1765 - 1799.

US Statues at Large

Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787.

United State Supreme Court opinions, including dissents to denials of cert. Future sources to include are briefs, oral argument and enhances descriptive metadata through 2017 .

Develop readings to help non-linguistics develop some basic and limited familiarity with corpus linguistics and its application.

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Harness volunteer talent as a force multiplier for the BYU Law School Law & Corpus Linguistics Project.

Develop a process for deduping text within any given corpus.

Develop a method to establish and OCR confidence score, based on the sample of principled text.

Elliots Debates.  The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution

Develop and approach to deal with variation between 21st Century and previous Centuries variations in spelling.

Develop a Corpus using volumes and editions of the Code of Federal Regulations.