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The meaning, benefit, and example of a corpus A. What is Corpus ·          A corpus is a collection of texts, written or spoken, usually stored in a computer database. A corpus may be quite small, for example, containing only 50,000 words of text, or very large, containing many millions of words. (Michael McCarthy) ·          A collection of naturally occurring language text, chosen to characterize a state or variety of a language. (John Sinclair. 1991. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.) ·          In  linguistics , a corpus (plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (nowadays usually electronically stored and processed). In  corpus linguistics , they are used to do statistical analysis and  hypothesis testing , checking occurrences or validating ...