How to say "corpus" in Japanese

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  • nounThe loanword for the linguistics sense of 'corpus': a collection of written or spoken texts compiled for language research, covering the plural 'corpora' too. It turns up in academic writing on language and linguistics.
    We created a freely available English-Japanese bilingual corpus.
  • 言語資料げんごしりょう
    nounLiterally 'language materials'; it covers 'linguistic data' broadly and can also mean 'text corpus'. It suits contexts where the emphasis is on the language data or materials themselves rather than the technical term.

Use 「コーパス」 for the linguistics term 'corpus' (plural 'corpora'), a compiled collection of texts for language study; 言語資料, literally 'linguistic data', is broader and fits when the emphasis is on the language data or materials themselves.

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