Available phrasebanks#

Academic Phrasebank#

Elsevier OA CC-BY contains 40k articles from Elsevier’s journals, including from Arts, Business, STEM to Social Sciences[1].

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Phrasebank

Source

N of grams

Lines

Comments

1

📍academic_phrasebank

Book Academic Phrasebank 2014

2-5

2,190

Extract from pdf (Zhihao, 2024)

2

📍elsevier_phrasebank

Corpus Elsevier OA CC-BY 2020

2-6

3,792

Extract by n-gram (Zhihao 2024)

3

📍bawe_1000.csv

Corpus British Academic Written English

4-6

1,000

Due to inaccessible, only most frequent 1000 list here. (Zhihao, 2024)

4

📍academic_word_list

Academic Word List Coxhead (2000)

1

570

The 570 word for academic English (exclude frequent 2000 words)

5

📍elsevier_awl

2,4

2-6

994

The Elsevier phrasebank that contains AWL (Zhihao, 2024)

6

📍elsevier_ENVI_EART

2

2-7

3,700

Environment & Earth Science 3700 collection (Zhihao 2024)

7

📍elsevier_PSYC_SOCI

2

2-7

3,700

Social Science & Psychology 3700 collection (Zhihao 2024)

8

📍elsevier_MEDI

2

2-7

3,700

Medicine 3700 collection (Zhihao 2024)

English Frequent Phrasebank#

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Phrasebank

Source

N-gram Length

Lines

Comments

1

📍google-10000-english

Google Books Corpus

1

10,000

The 10,000 most common English words from Google Books Corpus

2

📍Wordlist 1200.txt

Internet

1

2,000

The 2,000 most common English words

Note

  • To use it, you might need to reformat it according to your IDE/Input software.

  • The common words (e.g., “et al.” in academic publications) are excluded, but not all of them. Some manual modifications are necessary.

  • When use different criteria of frequency, the phrasebank might vary.

Known Issues#

Phrasebank

Issues

academic_phrasebank

Due to the table in the PDF file not being properly handled, many sentences were not extracted correctly. (zhihao)

elsevier_phrasebank