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The following is a history of the different corpora, as well as changes and improvements to the corpus architecture and interface.

2012. Apr Released www.academicwords.info; free downloadable lists for academic English: word families, core academic, and genre-specific technical words
2012. Apr Released www.wordandphrase.info/academic: same interface as the two resources below, but for just for 120 million words of COCA Academic English

2012. Feb

Modified www.wordandphrase.info: ability to enter entire texts and then see detailed information about words and phrases

2012. Jan

Released www.wordandphrase.info: integrated frequency and genre data, definitions, collocates, concordances, synonyms, and WordNet

2011. Dec

Released free n-grams lists for COCA and COHA; millions of rows of data for 2-grams (two word sequences), 3-grams, 4-grams, and 5-grams.

2011. May

Released beta version of the Google Books (American English) Corpus (155 billion words, 1810-2009)

2011. Apr

Added about 15 million words to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), for July 2010 - Mar 2011.

2011. Feb Added concordance view

2010. Oct

Improved functionality for interaction with other users (see queries, researchers, publications) and ability to save and manipulate Keyword in Context entries.

2010. Sep

Released beta version of the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)

2010. Aug

Added about 20 million words to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), for July 2009 - June 2010.

2010. Feb

Released the frequency lists and dictionary that are based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English.

2009. Aug

Added about 15 million words to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), for October 2008 - June 2009.

2009. May

Added new tools for collaboration: links to previous queries (including annotations/notes) and ability to share them with others

2008. Oct

Added about 15 million words to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), for Jan-Sep 2008.

2008. Jun

Applied the new architecture to the Corpus do Português

2008. Apr

Applied the new architecture to the British National Corpus and the TIME Corpus

2008. Mar

Released the Corpus of Contemporary American English

2007. Oct

Finished new (current) corpus architecture; applied it to the Corpus del Español. Major updates in this corpus as well, including much-improved tagging and lemmatization for Modern Spanish.

2007. May

Released the TIME Corpus of American English

2006. Aug

Released the Corpus do Português

2005. Apr

Interface for Register Variation in Spanish

2004. Apr

Released VIEW, our first version of the British National Corpus

2002. Sep

Released the first version of the Corpus del Español

Misc

There are several other corpora with older, non-standard architecture and interface: Polyglot Bible, Polyglot Book of Mormon, Medieval Spanish bibles, and Latin/OSp/ModSp bibles