Boyce spent her summer in Wellington, Aotearoa-NZ, working with her colleagues there to complete the Legal M?ori Corpus. It is comprised of 8 million words of running text compiled from legal texts printed in M?ori from the earliest printed materials in the nineteenth century to the present day . On June 30, the pre-1910 text collection of 5.2 million words was publicly released for use by researchers and the public. This is the largest known publicly available corpus of M?ori.

This unprecedented collection is a rich source of information to a range of research projects, both linguistic and legal. The Legal M?ori Project team is using the corpus as the basis for the dictionary, to guide which words, phrases and meanings to include in the dictionary.

Other outputs from the project are the Legal M?ori Archive, released in June 2009, and the Legal M?ori Lexicon released in June 2010. To view details of the project and the corpus texts, visit: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/PROJECTS/MaoriProject.aspx or http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-legalMaoriCorpus.html.

For more information, visit: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/PROJECTS/MaoriProject.aspx