Korpora

Korpora is a software library designed to provide unified access to linguistic corpora and language datasets. It aims to simplify working with multiple data sources by offering a single, consistent interface for loading, querying, and processing text collections used in natural language processing, linguistics, and language education.

At its core, Korpora offers adapters to connect to different corpora and data formats, a standardized data model for text and annotations, and utilities for common preprocessing tasks. The library emphasizes portability, supporting offline downloads of datasets and reproducible workflows by encapsulating metadata and provenance alongside the text data. A programmatic API and optional command-line tools enable both developers and researchers to integrate corpus access into their pipelines.

Typical applications include exploratory data analysis of corpora, benchmarking language models, linguistic research, and classroom exercises. By providing consistent access patterns and metadata, Korpora helps users compare datasets, track versioning, and reproduce experiments more easily.

The project is maintained through community contributions and documentation. Information on installation, data sources, licensing, and example usage is typically provided in the repository and accompanying tutorials.