[Corpora-List] Request for MSN Messenger 6.x Chat Logs

[Steven Halim]

To: Corpora-List member

I'm currently developing a tool to analyze information from MSN
Messenger 6.x chat logs for my course project. The beta version of the
tool, MSNMine, and a more detailed explanation of its usage is available
for public use at my website:
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~stevenha/MSNMine.html

For now, I need as many random samples of MSN Messenger 6.x Chat Logs as
possible (they are in XML format) for the studies of current Instant
Messaging usage pattern, especially those daily life conversations in
different languages. What I have now is my own chat logs, which doesn't
reflect the genericity of overall Instant Messaging usage around the
world.

If you have MSN Messenger version 6 onwards, save your own chat logs,
and you are willing to help out, please send the content of your chat
logs folder (default folder will be: ..\My Documents\My Received
Files\your_msn_user_id_and_some_numbers\History) to my email:
stevenhalim at gmail.com.

Please remove chat log files that are considered too sensitive or
contains secret information such as passwords, etc. I will not reveal
any of your chat logs content and will delete them all once my research
is completed.

Your help will be greatly appreciated and acknowledged on the project
report.

Regards,
Steven Halim
Computer Science postgraduate student at National University of
Singapore