diff --git a/spacy/munge/corpus.py b/spacy/munge/corpus.py
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+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+import zlib
+import gzip
+import sqlite3
+import os
+from os import path
+import sys
+
+
+class DocsDB(object):
+    def __init__(self, db_loc, batch_size=1000, limit=1000):
+        limit = int(limit)
+        batch_size = int(batch_size)
+        self._conn = sqlite3.connect(db_loc)
+        self._curr = self._conn.cursor()
+        try:
+            self._curr.execute('SELECT * FROM docs')
+        except:
+            print db_loc
+            raise
+        self._batch = self._curr.fetchmany(batch_size)
+        self._batch_size = batch_size
+        self._limit = limit
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        while self._batch:
+            for doc_id, compressed_doc in self._batch:
+                if compressed_doc:
+                    yield zlib.decompress(compressed_doc).decode('ascii')
+                if doc_id >= self._limit:
+                    self._batch = None
+                    break
+            else:
+                self._batch = self._curr.fetchmany(size=self._batch_size)
+
+
+class Gigaword(DocsDB):
+    @classmethod
+    def create(cls, giga_dir, db_loc):
+        giga_dir = str(giga_dir)
+        db_loc = str(db_loc)
+        if path.exists(db_loc):
+            os.unlink(db_loc)
+        conn = sqlite3.connect(db_loc)
+        c = conn.cursor()
+        c.execute('''CREATE TABLE docs (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, body BLOB)''')
+        doc_id = 0
+        for file_loc in iter_files(giga_dir):
+            print >> sys.stderr, file_loc
+            for doc in iter_docs(file_loc):
+                if doc.strip():
+                    compressed = sqlite3.Binary(zlib.compress(doc))
+                    c.execute('''INSERT INTO docs VALUES (?, ?)''', (doc_id, compressed))
+                    doc_id += 1
+            conn.commit()
+
+
+def iter_files(giga_dir):
+    for subdir in os.listdir(giga_dir):
+        if not path.isdir(path.join(giga_dir, subdir)):
+            continue
+        for filename in os.listdir(path.join(giga_dir, subdir)):
+            if filename.endswith('gz'):
+                yield path.join(giga_dir, subdir, filename)
+ 
+
+def iter_docs(zip_loc):
+    doc = []
+    para = []
+    in_doc = False
+    in_para = False
+    try:
+        lines = gzip.open(zip_loc, 'r').read().replace('&', '&').split('\n')
+    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        lines = []
+    for line in lines:
+        line = line.strip()
+        if not line:
+            pass
+        elif line[0] != '<':
+            if in_para:
+                para.append(line)
+        elif line.startswith('<DOC'):
+            in_doc = True
+        elif line.startswith('<P>'):
+            assert in_doc
+            in_para = True
+        elif line.startswith('</DOC'):
+            assert not in_para
+            in_doc = False
+            yield '\n\n'.join(doc)
+            doc = []
+        elif line.startswith('</P>'):
+            doc.append(' '.join(para))
+            in_para = False
+            para = []
+        else:
+            pass
+    assert not in_doc
+    assert not in_para