DEAP

北京外国语大学许家金教授领衔建立的学术英语语料库，DEAP (Database of English for Academic Purposes)

The DEAP (Database of English for Academic Purposes) Corpus aims to collect English research articles published in high-impact international journals of over 100 million words covering 20 or more disciplines. The text sampling taxonomy for DEAP follows the Chinese National System of Level One Disciplines for Degree Education (The Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council 2013), which also stipulates the Level Two sub-disciplines within each Level One disciplines.

The DEAP project was initiated in 2016 and has been coordinated by Professor Jiajin Xu of Beijing Foreign Studies University. Professor Maocheng Liang, Professor Wenzhong Li and Professor Wenxin Xiong had been core members of the coordinating committee for three years.

The sub-corpora of DEAP will be made freely available at CorpusCloud (http://www.corpuscloud.cn) on a registration basis, and at BFSU CQPweb (http://111.200.194.212/cqp/) with the user ID ‘test’ and passcode ‘test’.

Currently, BioDEAP (Biology sub-corpus), EconDEAP (Economics sub-corpus), LinDEAP (Linguistics sub-corpus), MatDEAP (Materials Science sub-corpus), MedDEAP (Medicine sub-corpus), MilDEAP (Military Science sub-corpus) and PsyDEAP (Psychology sub-corpus) have been finalised. Each sub-corpus is composed of 5 million words. By the end of 2019, 13 sub-corpora of DEAP will be completed.

Please visit http://corpus.bfsu.edu.cn/info/1082/1561.htm for future updates.

AgriDEAP: Agriculture Academic English Corpus

ArtDEAP: Art Academic English Corpus

BioDEAP: Life Science Academic English Corpus

ChemDEAP: Chemistry Academic English Corpus

CivDEAP: Civil Engineering Academic English Corpus

EconDEAP: Economics Academic English Corpus

EduDEAP: Education Academic English Corpus

EnvmDEAP: Environmental Engineering Academic English Corpus

GeoDEAP: Geology Academic English Corpus

HistDEAP: History Academic English Corpus

InfoDEAP: Information Science Academic English Corpus

LawDEAP: Law Academic English Corpus

LinDEAP: Linguistics Academic English Corpus

LitDEAP: Literature Academic English Corpus

MatDEAP: Materials Engineering Academic English Corpus

MathDEAP: Mathematics Academic English Corpus

MedDEAP: Medicine Academic English Corpus

MilDEAP: Military Science Academic English Corpus

NewsDEAP: Media and Communication Academic English Corpus

PhilDEAP: Philosophy Academic English Corpus

PsyDEAP: Psychology Academic English Corpus