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A body of text big enough to drown in, built so machines can learn to swim.
means A large, organized collection of written or spoken material — texts, documents, or recordings — gathered for study, reference, or training.
from Straight from Latin 'corpus,' meaning 'body.' The physical sense (a human or animal body) extended metaphorically to any organized whole treated as a single mass — a body of laws, a body of work, a body of texts. English borrowed it directly, keeping the Latin form intact (plural: 'corpora'), the way it did with many scholarly Latin terms. Related words sharing the root include 'corpse,' 'corporate,' and 'corporeal' — all circling the idea of a unified, bounded whole made of many parts.
- origin
- Latin for body, as in body of evidence
- scale
- modern ones span trillions of words
- use
- trains language models and linguists alike
- irony
- the bigger it gets, the less any human reads it