Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
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The Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech (SCOTS) is an ongoing project to build a corpus of modern-day texts in Scottish English and varieties of Scots. SCOTS has been available online since November 2004, and can be searched and browsed freely. Over the next two years, SCOTS aims to increase the size of the text collection to 4 million words.
SCOTS is a multimedia corpus, containing written texts and spoken texts, available as orthographic transcriptions, accompanied by source audio or video files. SCOTS includes a large number of genres and text types, including prose fiction, poetry, business and personal correspondence, religious texts, parliamentary and administrative documents, emails, conversations and interviews.
The project is a venture by the Department of English Language and STELLA project at the University of Glasgow. SCOTS is grant-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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