NLP: Building (small) corpora, or “Where to get lots of not-too-specialized English-language text files?”

Question

Does anyone have a suggestion for where to find archives or collections of everyday English text for use in a small corpus? I have been using Gutenberg Project books for a

Answer 1

Looking into the wikipedia data I noticed that they had done some analysis on bodies of tv and movie scripts. I thought that might interesting text but not readily accessible -- it turns out it is everywhere, and it is structured and predictable enough that it should be possible clean it up. This site, helpfully titled "A bunch of movie scripts and screenplays in one location on the 'net", would probably be useful to anyone who stumbles on this thread with a similar question.