diff --git a/languagetool-dev/pom.xml b/languagetool-dev/pom.xml
index 8be7e3385d77..ee55d46e92e4 100644
--- a/languagetool-dev/pom.xml
+++ b/languagetool-dev/pom.xml
@@ -72,6 +72,17 @@
             <artifactId>encog-core</artifactId>
             <version>3.2.0</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
+            <!-- Version used in Amazon AWS (AMI version 3.8.0): -->
+            <version>2.4.0</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
+            <version>2.4.0</version>
+        </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
diff --git a/languagetool-dev/src/main/java/org/languagetool/dev/hadoop/NGramAggregator.java b/languagetool-dev/src/main/java/org/languagetool/dev/hadoop/NGramAggregator.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..60d587148f8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/languagetool-dev/src/main/java/org/languagetool/dev/hadoop/NGramAggregator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/* LanguageTool, a natural language style checker 
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Daniel Naber (http://www.danielnaber.de)
+ * 
+ * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301
+ * USA
+ */
+package org.languagetool.dev.hadoop;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * Aggregate Google ngram data (http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2.html)
+ * in Hadoop. Based on the Hadoop word counter example.
+ */
+public final class NGramAggregator {
+
+  private static final int MIN_YEAR = 1910;
+
+  private NGramAggregator() {
+  }
+
+  public static class TokenizerMapper extends Mapper<Object, Text, Text, LongWritable> {
+    
+    private final Text word = new Text();
+    private final LongWritable count = new LongWritable();
+
+    @Override
+    public void map(Object key, Text value, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+      String[] parts = value.toString().split("\t");
+      int year = Integer.parseInt(parts[1]);
+      if (year >= MIN_YEAR) {
+        word.set(parts[0]);
+        count.set(Long.parseLong(parts[2]));
+        context.write(word, count);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  public static class LongSumReducer extends Reducer<Text, LongWritable, Text, LongWritable> {
+    private final LongWritable result = new LongWritable();
+
+    @Override
+    public void reduce(Text key, Iterable<LongWritable> values, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+      long sum = 0;
+      for (LongWritable val : values) {
+        sum += val.get();
+      }
+      result.set(sum);
+      context.write(key, result);
+    }
+  }
+
+  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+    Job job = Job.getInstance(conf, "Google ngram aggregator");
+    job.setJarByClass(NGramAggregator.class);
+    job.setMapperClass(TokenizerMapper.class);
+    job.setCombinerClass(LongSumReducer.class);
+    job.setReducerClass(LongSumReducer.class);
+    job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class);
+    job.setOutputValueClass(LongWritable.class);
+    FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path(args[0]));
+    FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(args[1]));
+    System.exit(job.waitForCompletion(true) ? 0 : 1);
+  }
+  
+}