 With the Web being a huge reservoir of data and resources, language scientists and technologists are increasingly turning to the web for language data.Corpora were first formally mentioned in the field of computational linguistics at the 1989 ACL meeting in Vancouver.It was met with much controversy as they lacked theoretical integrity leading to much skepticism of their role in the field, until the publication of the journal ‘Using Large Corpora’ in 1993 that the relationship between computational linguistics and corpora became widely accepted.