TechnologyAugust 15, 2026

corpora

KOR-puh-ruh

Definition

Large, structured sets of linguistic data, such as written or spoken text, used for research and the development of language models.

Etymology

Derived directly from the Latin 'corpus,' meaning 'body,' it arrived in English to describe a unified collection of writings or data that functions as a single body of information.

In the news

The article uses the term to describe the extensive collections of sentences and speech recordings gathered for languages like Santhali and Mundari to aid in research and technology development.

Government steps up efforts to preserve Indian languages

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The Sunday Guardian

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