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tagging may skip my letter again.<br>
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I am sending the compilation of the
answers I got - after many<br>
requests to do it:<br>
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Hi. Michael Barlow's pages may be a good start:<br>
<<a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html</a>><br>
You are also welcome to take a look at the CoSIH site (link below and
follow links<br>
thereof).<br>
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<a href="http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/dep/semitic/izreel.html" eudora="autourl">http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/dep/semitic/izreel.html</a><br>
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Good luck,<br>
Shlomo Izre'el<br>
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I can recommend the ICAME archive pages. They have all the
documentation<br>
of the ICAME CD-ROM online. <br>
See
<a href="http://www.hd.uib.no/icame/newcd.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.hd.uib.no/icame/newcd.htm</a>.<br>
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For a critical discussion of genre divisions<br>
in corpora, there are a number of sources, such as Kesser et al. <br>
(Proc. ACL '97) or a paper I have written together with Mathias
Kirsten,<br>
Proc. EACL '99. <br>
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Cheers, Maria<br>
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My comments - I could not get
in contact with Maria or Mathias<br>
Kirsten - esp that their publications are unavailable for me :-(. -
Vl R<br>
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There is quite a good article by David Lee of Lancaster University on
genre<br>
and corpora (particularly the BNC). It can be downloaded from<br>
<a href="http://members.xoom.com/davidlee00/downld.htm" eudora="autourl">http://members.xoom.com/davidlee00/downld.htm</a><br>
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Regards, Veronika Koller<br>
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My comments - it is a real good article. -
Vl R<br>
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The Linguistic Data Consortium's Catalog describes the 170 corpora that
the consortium<br>
currently distributes. You can find the catalog at:<br>
<a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog" eudora="autourl">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog</a><br>
On that page you can see various summaries of our corpora and search by
data type, data<br>
source (broadcast news, conversation), language, recommended application
and the<br>
sponsored research program, if any, that developed them.<br>
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Please let us know if this doesn't answer your questions. You can write
to me or to<br>
ldc@ldc.upenn.edu for more information.<br>
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Best wishes, Chris<br>
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Since I did not see any replies to Vladimir, here is an answer.<br>
But I think that others may have much better suggestions.<br>
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You can go to the archives of this list, going through<br>
<a href="http://linguistlist.org/" eudora="autourl">http://linguistlist.org/</a>
. That is possibly the most<br>
comprehensive source.<br>
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Old (1996) information below:<br>
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There is a site with a survey at each of these addresses:<br>
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<a href="http://www.hd.uib.no/" eudora="autourl">http://www.hd.uib.no</a><br>
<a href="http://www.clres.com/siglex.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.clres.com/siglex.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ling.lu.se/" eudora="autourl">http://www.ling.lu.se</a><br>
<a href="http://clr/nmsu/edu/clr/CLR.html" eudora="autourl">http://clr/nmsu/edu/clr/CLR.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/elsenet/eci_summary.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/elsenet/eci_summary.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ids-mannheim.de/telri/telri.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.ids-mannheim.de/telri/telri.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu</a><br>
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I have no idea whether any of these are still valid.<br>
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Happy search. Bill Mann<br>
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I sent my thanks to ALL the people mentioned above.<br>
<br>
Vladimir Rykov<br>
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