News on the Web (NOW)

The NOW corpus (News on the Web) contains 17.2 billion words of data from web-based newspapers and magazines from 2010 to the present time (the most recent day is 2023-04-23). More importantly, the corpus grows by about 180-200 million words of data each month (from about 300,000 new articles), or about two billion words each year. While other resources like Google Trends show you what people are searching for, the NOW Corpus is the only structured corpus that shows you what is actually happening in the language -- virtually right up to the present time. For example, see the frequency of words since 2010, as well as new words and phrases from the last few years. In this sense, NOW is the most robust monitor corpus of English. Access to material is limited to UCLA graduate students and faculty. Undergraduates please use the standard web interface for the corpora: https://www.english-corpora.org/now/

NOW语料库（News on the Web）包含源自2010年至今、最新数据更新至2023年4月23日的网络报纸与杂志内容，总词量达172亿。更重要的是，该语料库每月新增约1.8亿至2亿词汇量（来源于约30万篇新刊发文章），年均新增约20亿词汇量。尽管诸如谷歌趋势（Google Trends）这类资源仅能展示人们的搜索行为，但NOW语料库是目前唯一可近乎实时呈现语言实际使用动态的结构化语料库。例如，用户可查询2010年以来的词汇使用频率，以及近数年涌现的新词汇与新短语。就此而言，NOW语料库是最具鲁棒性的英语监测语料库。该语料库的访问权限仅限加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的研究生与教职员工。本科生请使用该语料库的标准网页接口：https://www.english-corpora.org/now/