Dear list members,

We are pleased to announce a new corpus of present-day Persian. The faGLOBE Corpus (Version 1) is a balanced collection of contemporary Farsi/Persian written texts, totaling one million words.

The text samples in the corpus were gathered and cleaned up by Yanjun Li and three students of Persian, namely, Shuainan Chen, Qi Hu and Tinglu Zhou, of the School of Asian Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU).

The online version of the faGLOBE Corpus is available at http://114.251.154.212/cqp/. Both user ID and passcode are ‘test’.

More information can be found at http://corpus.bfsu.edu.cn/info/1082/1812.htm.

Best,

Jiajin XU, Ph.D., Professor National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China