[Corpora-List] Where is corpus linguistics on the web?

[Mike Scott]

  I agree in part with Alan Hougue.
I tried the google search he recommends and did not find it quite as 
disappointing as he suggests -- the very top of the listing was a not 
very extensive, fairly OK Wikipedia article on CL. After that, books and 
past conferences, which indeed may not be much use, depending on what 
you want to know. As a community we ought to contribute more to 
Wikipedia: I have done a little but I know I should have done more.

 > Shouldn't there be at least one general site which helps people find 
their way?

Well ideally there'd be a really useful helpful page to meet any google 
query but we all know there usually isn't, and that googling, like CL, 
is a matter of recurrent searches and re-phrasing of one's questions. As 
your own sign-off has it:

"A good traveler has no fixed plans
  and is not intent on arriving."

-Lao Tzu

It is true though that many CL sites are very poorly documented so that 
you have to drill down hard to find what you want, and often it is out 
of date or inexplicit. Perhaps because it's nobody's responsibility to 
re-think the site or no institutional support for doing it. There are 
exceptions. Try http://tiny.cc/corpora.
-- --
Mike Scott

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