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Geoffrey Leech’s ideas have been inspirational both to Corpus-based computational linguists in general, and to me personally: first as a student and Researcher Associate at Lancaster University, then as a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at Leeds University. This chapter focuses on research at Lancaster and Leeds building on Geoffrey Leech’s ideas, looking in particular at how corpus resources can be applied as training data for "intelligent" machine learning software systems, enabling them to "learn" models of English language to use in Speech And Language Technology applications such as speech and handwriting recognition systems.