Corpus of American Soap Operas - Kielipankki version, source

This resource will be available for download in Kielipankki – the Language Bank of Finland. This resource contains a copy of the original Corpus of American Soap Operas (SOAP), provided by Mark Davies on 4th June 2021 via the corpus service at https://www.english-corpora.org. The corpus contains 100 million words of data from 22,000 transcripts from American soap operas from the years 2001-2012, and it serves as a great resource to look at very informal language. The corpus is related to many other corpora of English, formerly known as the "BYU Corpora". License details: Researchers in the FIN-CLARIN member organizations can obtain access to the full data set by submitting an application and a research plan via Language Bank Rights, https://lbr.csc.fi. General terms and conditions: please see https://www.corpusdata.org/restrictions.asp.