BLaRC: British Law Report Corpus
The British Law English corpus is an 8.5 million-word English corpus of judicial decisions. Explore legal English with this corpus.
The British Law Report Corpus (BLaRC) is a British English corpus made up of judicial decisions issued by British courts and tribunals. The corpus consists of 8.5 million words of legal texts published in 2008–2010.
The corpus is owned by the University of Murcia, Spain, and compiled by Dr. María José Marín Pérez.
Part-of-speech tagset
The BLaRC corpus is tagged using English PennTreebank Tagset.
Tools to work with the British Law Reference Corpus
A complete set of tools is available to work with this BLaRC corpus of legal documents to generate:
- word sketch – English collocations categorized by grammatical relations
- thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
- keywords – terminology extraction of one-word and multi-word units
- word lists – lists of English nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
- n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
- concordance – examples in context
- text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus
Bibliography
Marín, M.J. (2013). Identification and analysis of the specialised vocabulary of British law reports : A corpus-driven study of this legal genre at the core of common law legal systems. Doctoral thesis. Universidad de Murcia.
RIZZO, Camino Rea; PÉREZ, Mª José Marín. Structure and design of the British Law Report Corpus (BLRC): a legal corpus of judicial decisions from the UK. Journal of English Studies, 2012, 10: 131-145.
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