ABSTRACT
The International Corpus of English (ICE) is a collaborative project involving research teams in over 16 countries throughout the world (see Greenbaum 1992). Each team is compiling a corpus of one million words of their own national or regional variety of English, of which 600,000 words are taken from spoken sources. One of the primary aims of the project is to produce research material for comparative studies between varieties of English throughout the world, and to facilitate this, each corpus will be computerized, tagged and parsed using common conventions. The project, which began in 1990, is being coordinated by the Survey of English Usage, University College London.
