Canterbury Corpus

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The Canterbury Corpus is a collection of files intended for use as a benchmark for testing lossless data compression algorithms. It was created in 1997 at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and designed to replace the Calgary Corpus.

[edit] See also

• Data compression

[edit] External links

• The Canterbury Corpus

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