[Corpora-List] Brown Corpus

Steven Bird sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Fri Jun 17 12:50:30 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 13:10 +0100, Adam Kilgarriff wrote:
> Like Lou, I think the original structure of the Brown, with *same-size*
> samples, has a lot to commend it.

OK, I'm convinced.

(Mitch Marcus also pointed out the importance of this structure of the
corpus for relating the material back to the sources, in case someone
wants to take the small differences of genre into consideration.)

Thanks,
-Steven

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