Specialized Corpora: Relatively small-sized and specialized in terms of genre or domain, these
types of corpora are more varied and available in greater numbers. The current tendency in
specialized corpus creation is mostly observed in professional and academic domains. Some
representatives of such specialized corpora include the Corpus of Professional Spoken American
English (CPSA) 1 and the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE).2 a
specialized corpus can also be created by extracting relevant text data from a larger general
corpus.
