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The Research and Development Unit for English Studies (RDUES), based in the School of English at Birmingham City University, is a small team of corpus linguists, software engineers and statisticians. We carry out fundamental and applied research in corpus linguistics, developing new descriptions of the language in use and tools for the extraction and management of knowledge in databases. The Unit's linguistic background is broad: corpus-based linguistics, lexicography, applied linguistics, the study of modern English language, modern languages, TEFL. Activities include:

JRC-Acquis Multilingual Parallel Corpus is a collection of European Union legal texts, in 22 of the member state's languages, that has been aligned and coded in XML, providing an invaluable tool for linguistic research and a resource for computational linguistic applications. The corpus consists of a selection of texts from the Acquis Communautaire (AC), the total body of European Union (EU) law, applicable in the the EU member states and contains some 636 million word tokens. The languages included are, Bulgarian; Czech; Swedish; German; Greek; English; Spanish; Estonian; Finnish; French; Hungarian; Italian; Lithuanian; Latvian; Maltese; Dutch; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Slovak; Slovene; and Danish.

British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE)

Real Academia Española - Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA)

Real Academia Española - Corpus Diacrónico del Español (CORDE)

THE CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH (COCA)

This Web site, from the Trésor de la langue française au Québec, provides a freely accessible, online database of the linguistic differences throughout the francophone world. Countries and regions featured here include Belgium; Burundi; Louisiana; Morocco; Quebec; and Switzerland. Users may conduct simple or complex searches for particular words, or browse through the region-specific 'dictionaries'.