[Corpora-List] Corpus vs Intuition

[Marco Baroni]

My esperience working with colleagues who come form the pure  
"uncontrolled grammaticality judgment" angle is that there is no  
point in embarking on lengthy discussions about the merits of  
corpora: that will only make them more defensive and ideological  
about what they are doing.

The best thing is to tackle some theoretical topics they are  
interested in, using corpus-based methods. Especially if your corpus- 
based results confirm their theoretical predictions, they will become  
naturally interested in what you did ;-) -- and, even if the results  
go against their predictions, the debate will shift to the empircal  
matter at hand, rather than getting stuck in pointless ideological  
fights about methodology.

My 2 non-confrontational cents.

Marco









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Marco Baroni
CIMeC, University of Trento
http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/marco



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