The Corpus of Late Modern English Texts, version 3.1

The Corpus of Late Modern English Texts (CLMET) is a corpus of roughly 35 million words of British English from 1710–1920, grouped into three 70-year periods. The history, versions and specifics of corpus composition can be followed up by referring to the CLMET3.0 website. CLMET3.0 is currently distributed in three formats: (i) plain text, (ii) plain text with one sentence per line, and (iii) a tagged version (one sentence per line). Version CLMET3.1 is the result of making CLMET available in a CQP format for use in CWB and CQPweb-based corpus environments. While there is no change to the selection of texts, CLMET3.1 includes additions and changes in linguistic annotation. The changes in CLMET3.1 are of three general types: (a) retokenization and retagging, (b) fixing of some systematic issues that come with historical data, and (c) enhancing annotation by adding lemmas and simplified part-of-speech class tags.