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The purpose of this introductory book is to confirm the importance of speech and text corpora in the modern age of linguistic studies. We consider corpus linguistics to be one of the fundamental domains of applied linguistics within the main research and development activities of man–machine interaction in language understanding. Keeping this observation in mind, we have tried to convey some of the general ideas and issues related to corpus linguistics and corpus-based studies of languages. For the works of speech corpora development and utilization in speech and language technology, during the last few decades, corpora have created unprecedented expectations among scholars. Since we want to keep this expectation alive, we have tried to bring in an extra shade to the field of corpus application so that corpora can meet the great challenges we have been facing in understanding natural languages in all …