corpus; linguistic data; text corpus
Technical term in linguistics for a structured collection of texts used for analysis.
In this research, we analyzed grammatical patterns using a large corpus.
To build a corpus, you need to collect a lot of texts.
More common loanword for 'corpus' in linguistics; 言語資料 is a native Japanese equivalent often used in academic contexts.
Compound of 言語 (language) and 資料 (materials, data).