EXPRES Corpus
a bilingual digital collection of expert academic writing
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The main characteristics of the EXPRES corpus ("EXPRES" as in: "Corpus of Expert Writing in Romanian and English") are:

check bilingual (Romanian-English)
check written
check comparable
check multidisciplinary
check dynamic
check expert L1 (mother-tongue Romanian) academic writing
check expert English L2 academic writing
check expert English L1 academic writing

The corpus was compiled in the framework of the research project DACRE, financed through a PCE grant awarded to the project coordinator, Dr. Madalina Chitez, by the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and DigitizationUEFISCDI. The project has been conducted at the West University of Timisoara, at CODHUS (Centre for Corpus Related Digital Approaches to Humanities).

The EXPRES platform promotes the use of corpus linguistics methods to investigate on and generate support for discipline-specific expert academic writing in Romanian and English.

More information about the project here.