The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the first reliable monitor corpus of English.
Mark Davies.
Lit Linguist Computing (2010) 25(4): 447-464 first published online October 27, 2010

Lit Linguist Computing (2010) 25 (4): 447-464. doi: 10.1093/llc/fqq018 First published online: October 27, 2010 This article appears in: Special Issue ‘Papers from Digital Humanities 2009, University of Maryland, USA’

ヘー、こんなのを2009年にUMDでやってたのね。あ、そういえば、言語学科にComutational Linguisticsの人がいるからなぁ。