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Introducing The Single Player Offline Game Corpus (Spoc): A Corpus Of Seven Registers From Digital Role-Playing Games, Daniel Dixon

Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language Faculty Publications

This paper describes the compilation and design of the Single Player Offline Game Corpus (SPOC), which is being made freely available for research and educational purposes. The SPOC was compiled by extracting the localization files from the digital directories of four popular commercial digital role-playing games: Divinity: Original Sin II, Fallout 4, the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The 3.7-million-word corpus contains more than 30,000 texts and is unique from other game corpora in that it has the following three characteristics: (1) the texts are categorized into seven registers using Biber …