The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

By Mark Davies. 2012

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Citations in the corpus

Addressing Age-Related Bias in Sentiment Analysis (2018, methodology): “Starting with the 500 most common English adjectives [Mark, 2008], we generate “older” and “younger” analogs for each adjective using the 10 GloVe (Global Vectors for Word Representation) embeddings [Pennington et al.”
Learning L2 vocabulary from audiovisual input: an exploratory study into incidental learning of single words and formulaic sequences (2019, methodology): “The distractor options in this test were either non-words (for the single words) or incorrect formulaic sequences, i.e. word combinations that could not be found in the COCA.”
Change in modal meanings: Another look at the shifting collocates of may (2016, methodology): “will be illustrated on the basis of a corpus-based study that draws on data from the Corpus of Historical American English (Davies 2010) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies 2007). A particular focus will be on the modal auxiliary may, specifically on changes in its collocational ”
On measurement and quantification: The case of most and more than half (2016, methodology): “Consider the following pairs, involving examples of the use of most drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies 2008–),1 and the corresponding sentences formed by replacing most with more than half.”
Time-Out: Temporal Referencing for Robust Modeling of Lexical Semantic Change (2019, methodology): “6.2) we used COCA (Davies, 2008), of which we remove the spoken and academic genres in order to maintain a more similar usage context of words.”