[Corpora-List] Question: Citing Linguistic Corpora

[M. Rezaei]

Dear Adam, Eric, and Marc
Thank you for your responses.

Suppose I use the Corpus of Contemporary Arabic for some NLP or corpus
linguistics purpose, would it be strange to cite it as follows:
Al-Sulaiti, L., & Atwell, E. S. (2006). Corpus of Contemporary Arabic
(CCA). Leeds, UK: University of Leeds. Retrieved from
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/latifa/research.htm

instead of:
Al-Sulaiti, L., & Atwell, E. S. (2006). The design of a corpus of
contemporary Arabic. *International Journal of Corpus Linguistics*, *11*(2),
135-171.

?

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Marc Brysbaert <marc.brysbaert at ugent.be>wrote:

>  Hi,****
>
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> Researchers get most credit for their work when it is published in a
> journal that features in ISI or Scopus, as it is then used for all types of
> metrics (whether you like this or not). From my own experience, I’ve
> noticed that it is not so easy, however, to get manuscripts on corpora (or
> word frequency lists) published, even though they are well cited. Does
> anyone have a list of ISI journals that publish information on corpora?
> Thus far I have published most of my findings in Behavior Research Methods,
> but this is aimed at a psychological audience (and hence will only accept
> papers that are interesting for them).****
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> Best, marc****
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>

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Eric Atwell <E.S.Atwell at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> Morteza,
>
> This question is timely in the UK where we are preparing for REF.
> Whatever Corpus Linguists may think, the wider academic world expects
> citations of published journal/conference papers or books. So, when a
> corpus is created, the developers should also publish a paper or book on
> the research undertaken to develop the corpus, and this is what you
> should cite. Even if you don't directly quote from the paper, you are
> citing the academic research idea embodied in the paper. Sometimes a
> corpus project can lead to several publications.
> It is good practice for creators of a corpus to nominate a specific paper
> whcih should be cited by users of the corpus, e.g. on the website where
> you get the corpus from. This helps people like you who want to know
> what to cite; and it helps the corpus creators to accumulate due credit
> for their work. For example for REF, we nominate up to 4 key papers for
> assessment, so it helps if others cite these specific 4 papers.
>
> Eric Atwell, Leeds University

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> *From:* corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] *On Behalf
> Of *Adam Kilgarriff
> *Sent:* 07 March 2013 08:37
> *To:* M. Rezaei
> *Cc:* corpora at uib.no
> *Subject:* Re: [Corpora-List] Question: Citing Linguistic Corpora****
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> Dear Morteza,****
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> Yes, you definitely should cite the corpus.****
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> It is always likely that your POS-tagger will have failings because of
> characteristics of the corpus it was trained on.  People should be able to
> look at it in this light, with an account of how the corpus was prepared,
> available to them.****
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> Sometimes there is no obvious way to cite the corpus.  Sometimes a URL is
> best (which is what I do for example for the BNC, as the website is
> long-life and with full and good documentation, and the only alternative is
> to a technical report that no-one is actually going to track down).  As a
> producer of corpora, I aim to write them up in a paper that is easy to find
> and to read and serves as a reference.****
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>
>  Adam
>
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> On 7 March 2013 06:27, M. Rezaei <mrezaeis at mehr.sharif.ir> wrote:****
>
> Dear all,****
>
> Salam.****
>
> Suppose I use a text corpus and I extract some statistical information
> from it or I train a POS tagger based on it. Well, I have used the corpus,
> but I have not directly used the paper which describes it i.e. I have not
> quoted a paragraph from the paper in my research. Is there any standard
> style for citing the corpus itself, as a data set? Is it a good idea to do
> so? What about the corpus authors, do they prefer users to cite their paper
> rather than the corpus itself?****
>
> Looking forward to receiving your responses.****
>
> Best Regards****
>
> Morteza Rezaei
>
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