[Corpora-List] Looking for a CMC corpus

John F. Sowa sowa at bestweb.net
Sun Jun 12 21:20:35 UTC 2005


Sara Chen wrote:

 > I'm looking for a CMC corpus including correspondence
 > via computer either synchronous or asynchronous.
 > Or any corpora include part of electronic form
 > of correspondence?

The largest available corpus of email is the
collection of Enron emails that were obtained for
the court trials.  For more info about that corpus,
type the following to Google:

   Enron email

That will give you over 3 million hits, of which
most of the top hits talk about that corpus.  If you
type the following three words, you'll get a more
focused collection of 16,700 hits that talk about
analyzing that corpus:

   Enron email corpus

John Sowa



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