The Louvain Corpus of Research Articles is a corpus currently under development at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics which aims to represent expert academic discourse in several disciplines. It currently totals 3 million words and contains research articles from peer-reviewed top-rated journals in three disciplines: business, linguistics and medicine (c. 1 million words per discipline). A subset of the LOCRA corpus was also used as a basis for the compilation of an English-French comparable corpus (LOCRA-bilingual comparable), which consists of 4 million words of English and French research articles in the Humanities. The texts were compiled from top-ranked journals and are evenly spread across five disciplines: anthropology, education, political science, psychology and sociology.
| Original English | Original French | ||
| LOCRA | Register | Research articles in the Humanities from top-ranked journal across 5 disciplines (viz. anthropology, education, political science, psychology and sociology) | Research articles in the Humanities from top-ranked journal across 5 disciplines (viz. anthropology, education, political science, psychology and sociology) |
| Total # of words | 2,033,106 | 2,025,372 | |
| Total # of texts | 271 | 313 | |
| Average text length | 7,502 words | 6,470 words | |
| Publication date | 2007–2013 | 2006–2014 |