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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear all, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've recently come across Frank Smadja et al.'s
Xtract and Champollion and I wonder if the two programs are available for
research purposes. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm now doing test runs with Mike Barlow's ParaConc
and Collocate as well as Bill Fletcher's kfngrams on a (admittedly) rather small
sentence-aligend German-English parallel corpus (about 10,000 words each). For
my Ph.D., however, I am planning to work with Philipp Koehn's EU proceedings
with about 11 mio words each (does anyone know if its also available already
tagged?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Furthermore, following the discussion on legal
aspects of corpus compilation & exploitation on this list, I'd like to know
if there are any legal problems concerning the use of the EU texts for (Ph.D.)
research work?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Philippa</FONT></DIV>
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