This resource contains a copy of the original Corpus of American Soap Operas (SOAP), provided by Mark Davies on 4th June 2021 via the corpus service at https://www.english-corpora.org. The corpus contains 100 million words of data from 22,000 transcripts from American soap operas from the years 2001-2012, and it serves as a great resource to look at very informal language. The corpus is related to many other corpora of English, formerly known as the ”BYU Corpora”.
More information on Mark Davies’ corpora at Kielipankki.
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Of this language corpus different versions/subcorpora are (or might be in the future) published in the Language Bank of Finland. The versions are available through the Language Bank Download Service and/or through the Korp concordance tool. The links to the different versions can be found from the list above.
Detailed information on the content of each version, user rights and licenses can be found from it’s specific metadata record in META-SHARE.
This resource group page has a Persistent Identifier: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2022112410
