corpus
A large set of texts or speech that people keep together so they can study or analyze the language in them.
A large, structured collection of written or spoken texts that is gathered and stored, especially so it can be studied or processed systematically.
In medical or biology language, the central main part of an organ or body structure, not the ends or thin parts.
In anatomy, the main or central body of an organ or other structure, as distinct from its ends, neck, or attached parts.
In money and law, the original main amount of money, not the extra money (interest or income) it earns.
In finance and law, the main sum of money that is invested, lent, or held in a trust, as distinct from any interest, dividends, or income it produces.
- Base: corpus
- Plural: corpora, corpuses
corpus callosum
1nerve bridge between brain halves
The part of the brain made of many nerve fibers that connects the left side and the right side, allowing them to send signals to each other.
- The scan revealed an abnormality in the patient’s corpus callosum.
- Damage to the corpus callosum can lead to serious communication problems between the brain hemispheres.
corpus delicti
1evidence that a crime occurred
The main facts or physical proof that show a crime really happened, for example a dead body, a broken door, or stolen goods.
- Without the missing funds, the prosecution struggled to establish the corpus delicti.
- The discovery of the victim’s body finally provided the corpus delicti needed for the murder charge.
corpus linguistics
1study of language using corpora
A field of language study where researchers use big collections of texts or speech, called corpora, to find patterns in how people really use language.
- She is taking a course in corpus linguistics this semester.
- Corpus linguistics has changed how dictionaries are written, because it shows how words are used in real life.
habeas corpus
1legal action against unlawful detention
A legal process or order that makes the police or state bring a person they are holding to court, so a judge can decide if keeping that person in jail is legal.
- The lawyer filed a habeas corpus petition challenging his client’s detention.
- Habeas corpus is a key protection against people being held without charges.
parallel corpus
1aligned bilingual or multilingual texts
A special kind of corpus that has texts in one language and their translations in another language, lined up so you can easily compare them.
- Machine translation systems are trained using a large parallel corpus of legal documents.
- A high‑quality parallel corpus is essential for studying how ideas are expressed across languages.
spoken corpus
1stored collection of spoken data
A large set of recordings or written versions of real speech that people keep together so they can study how people actually speak.
- Her research is based on a spoken corpus of casual conversations between friends.
- Pronunciation patterns were analyzed using a spoken corpus of radio interviews.
text corpus
1stored collection of written texts
A large set of written texts that people keep in a computer or database so they can study or analyze the language in them.
- We trained the language model on a massive text corpus of online articles.
- The textbook includes examples from a balanced text corpus of newspapers, novels, and academic writing.