Linguistics: Data Resources

Reference sources for language and linguistics

Libraries Data Support Services

Data Management Consultations
Connect with UW's Data Services Librarian for data management consultations related to your research or teaching.
Data Management Guide
The Libraries' guide to resources on data management plans, data organization, sharing, storage, and more
Data Resources
The Libraries' guide to information and resources for finding and visualizing data

Licensed Data for UW Linguistics

CompLing Database (UW Linguistics ONLY)
UW LINGUISTICS LOGIN REQUIRED Access to corpora and other data resources licensed for use by the UW Department of Linguistics and its affiliates.
LDC Catalog
Catalog of corpora and other data from the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). All LDC data licensed by the UW Department of Linguistics is accessible via the CompLing Database.

Other Online Data Sources

ACL: List of Resources by Language
List of ACL Anthology language pages from Albanian to Zulu, providing links and commentary on computational resources for each
ELRA Catalogue
Repository of over 1,500 language resources (LRs) from the European Language Resource Association
English Corpora
Widely-used online corpora for English, suited for many uses by teachers, researchers, and companies. Includes Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), British National Corpus (BNC), and many more.
Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
"... provides easy-to-use interfaces to over 50 corpora and lexical resources such as WordNet, along with a suite of text processing libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning, wrappers for industrial-strength NLP libraries, and an active discussion forum."
Open Speech and Language Resources (OpenSLR)
"... site devoted to hosting speech and language resources, such as training corpora for speech recognition, and software related to speech recognition."

Database Downloads

Various online language and linguistics databases provide free downloads of their data. You can download the full database of these online resources, among others: