[Corpora-List] Question: Citing Linguistic Corpora

[Mark Davies]

As a creator of several corpora from http://corpus.byu.edu, I request that people cite the corpus itself (e.g. http://corpus.byu.edu/faq.asp#cite), but of course they are also welcome to cite one of the papers I've written describing the corpus (e.g. #12 COHA or #25 COCA or #35 CdE from http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/personal/vita.pdf).

Unfortunately, only a small portion of those who use the corpora seem to take the time to do this. For example, http://corpus.byu.edu/publicationSearch.asp lists 200+ articles from the past year, which have used the corpus data, but the actual number is probably 4 or 5 times that high. But at least it's a start...

Mark D.

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Mark Davies
Professor of Linguistics / Brigham Young University
http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/
** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of M. Rezaei
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:28 PM
To: corpora at uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] Question: Citing Linguistic Corpora

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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