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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>yesterday I had asked for suggestions</FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2> about newspaper corpora.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many thanks to the people you</FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2> have answered so far.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They already provided me with a lot</FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2> of suggestions (summary below).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unfortunately,</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> all
the suggested corpora were either</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in English or in German.</FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Its exactly these two languages that</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have already evaluated (on the</FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2> Wall Street Journal corpus and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Neue Zürcher Zeitung).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you perhaps know of any newspaper corpora in
other languages like Danish</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Turkish or Hungarian?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:strunk@linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de">strunk@linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ruhr-Universität Bochum</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Germany</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> <FONT face=Arial size=2>Summary of the responses I got so
far:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mahtab Nikkhou suggested looking at the ELDA
ressources collection:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>You may have a look at ELDA's on-line language
resources catalogue from: <BR>><A
href="http://www.elda.fr/cata/tabtext.html">http://www.elda.fr/cata/tabtext.html</A><BR>>If
you wish to order a database, please contact Ms Valerie Mapelli at <BR>><A
href="mailto:mapelli@elda.fr">mapelli@elda.fr</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jana Diesner suggested the following for
German:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> der klassiker: <A
href="http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/~cosmas/">http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/~cosmas/</A>,
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>auch unter: </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.ids-mannheim.de/kt/corpora.shtml">http://www.ids-mannheim.de/kt/corpora.shtml</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> alternativ: <A
href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/sfb378/negra-corpus/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/sfb378/negra-corpus/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=973470615-14042003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tony
Rose:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=973470615-14042003><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2>>
You could also try the Reuters Corpus:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=973470615-14042003><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><FONT
color=#000000>> </FONT><A
href="http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/corpus/">http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/corpus/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>><SPAN class=973470615-14042003><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2>
It's an archive of some 800,000 English language news stories, is freely
available, and marked up in XML (NewsML in fact).</FONT></SPAN><BR><BR>Jerome
Richalot:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=853503614-14042003>>How about the METER COrpus at</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=853503614-14042003><FONT
color=#000000>></FONT><A
href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/meter/Metercorpus/metercorpus.htm">http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/meter/Metercorpus/metercorpus.htm</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=853503614-14042003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV>And last but not least Thorsten Brants proposed the NEGRA corpus:</DIV>
<DIV>>the NEGRA Corpus (<A
href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/sfb378/negra-corpus/)">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/sfb378/negra-corpus/)</A><BR>>contains
articles from the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau.<BR>>As part of the
syntactic annotation, the texts are separated into sentences,<BR>>which
disambiguates the periods.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Thanks again!</DIV>
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