@inproceedings{Davies2019, author = {Mark Davies}, title = {The best of both worlds: Multi-billion word “dynamic” corpora}, series = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-7) 2019. Cardiff, 22nd July 2019}, editor = {Piotr Bański and Adrien Barbaresi and Hanno Biber and Evelyn Breiteneder and Simon Clematide and Marc Kupietz and Harald L{\"u}ngen and Caroline Iliadi}, publisher = {Leibniz-Institut f{\"u}r Deutsche Sprache}, address = {Mannheim}, doi = {10.14618/ids-pub-9023}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-90234}, pages = {23 -- 28}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Nearly all of the very large corpora of English are “static”, which allows a wide range of one-time, pre-processed data, such as collocates. The challenge comes with large “dynamic” corpora, which are updated regularly, and where preprocessing is much more difficult. This paper provides an overview of the NOW corpus (News on the Web), which is currently 8.2 billion words in size, and which grows by about 170 million words each month. We discuss the architecture of NOW, and provide many examples that show how data from NOW can (uniquely) be extracted to look at a wide range of ongoing changes in English.}, language = {en} }