[Corpora-List] Punctuation

[Eric Atwell]

Tim,
most English corpora since pioneering Brown and LOB in 1960s have
included punctuation, so any of these might do.
The British National Corpus from 1990s has the advantage of www-based
trail search, you can "try before you buy" at
http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html

For example I tried search term {'|"}
- regular expression finding all occurrences of ' or "
(usage depends on original sources so there is no corpus-wide
  standardised punctuation)

I'm not sure how to identify all and only scare quotes via such regular
expressions... good luck!

Eric Atwell, school of Computing, Leeds University


On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Grant, T. wrote:

> I'm looking for a freely accessible English language corpus which allows analysis of punctuation marks - I'm interested for example in examining the use of scare quotes.
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> Any ideas gratefully received.
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> Tim
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