The 1.7 billion word LEXMCI corpus of English was created by the Lexicography MasterClass in 2008 as a source of lexicographic information for the lexicographers compiling the Dante database.
Bibliography
(about Dante)
Kilgarriff, Adam (2010). DANTE: A Detailed, Accurate, Extensive, Available English Lexical Database in Proceedings of a meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Los Angeles, June.