added brown TextCollection

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+from nltk.corpus import brown
+from nltk.text import TextCollection
+
+# the default initialization for a corpus fails
+# since files() was changed to fileids()
+# anyway, brown_collection = TextCollection(brown) doesn't work
+# so we use this workaround
+words = [brown.words(f) for f in brown.fileids()]
+brown_collection = TextCollection(words)