Brown Corpus

The Brown Corpus is a collection of written text organized for linguistic research, first compiled in the 1960s at Brown University. It includes about 1 million words from a variety of sources like newspapers, fiction, and academic writing, representing different writing styles and topics. Researchers use it as a standard reference to study language patterns, grammar, and word usage. Think of it as a large, carefully selected sample of everyday English used to understand how language is structured and evolves over time. It’s an important resource in the fields of linguistics and natural language processing.