The COBUILD corpus
In this step, you will learn about the background to corpus-based approaches and their revolutionary impact on lexicography.
In this interview with lexicographer Ramesh Krishnamurthy, you will learn about his experience working on the COBUILD project, jointly run by Collins Dictionaries and the University of Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s.
Further reading
You can also learn more about the COBUILD corpus by viewing COBUILD: The Early Years:
Part 1: Where it all began
Part 2: A dictionary from a corpus.
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