Corpora: British newspaper in electonic form

[Khalid CHOUKRI]

At Wednesday 6/7/00 11:01 PM(+0100), David Lee wrote:
>Stephanie,
>
> > We are trying to locate Britisch newspapers (or articles from British
> > newspapers) in electronic form from the late 1980s. Does anybody know
>of
> > any electronic holdings (perhaps a corpus that includes newspapers)?
>Any
> > help more than gratefully received.

you could have a look at the ELRA catalogue and particularly the MLCC
resource (reference W0023) at  http://www.elda.fr/cata/tabtext.html#corpora
it consists of  data from The Financial Times -1993,  (if 93 is close
enough to late 80')
The corpus contains around 30 million words.
best regards
khalid


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