The American National Corpus: A Standardized Resource for American English
Catherine Anne MacLeod, Nancy Ide, Ralph Grishman · 2000
Catherine Macleod proposed creating an American National Corpus (ANC) that would compare with the British National Corpus (BNC) both in balance and in size (one hundred million words).This paper reports on the progress made over the past two years in launching the project.At present, the ANC project is well underway, with commitments for support and contribution of texts from a number of publishers world-wide.