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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Rather than give you a long list of potentionally unnecessary or uninteresting information, may I suggest you see David Lee's web site (Bookmarks for Corpus Based Linguistics):</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"> which is a vast summary, (certainly enough to get you started) of just about everything regarding corpus based research; from all the different corpora available, (both commercial and on-line, to on-line tutorials, books, references, software and so on.The only thing I am unsure of is when it was last up-dated. </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Also, since you seem savvy regarding computer science, may I suggest Dr. Graeme Hirst's (computational linguistics) home page <A href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gh/">http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gh/</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Click on 'my publications'. You will see a (very long) list of names. The authors that I am familiar with besides Hirst, are Budanitsky, DeMarco, Edmonds, and Inkpen, but that is certainly not to say that others may pique your curiosity more. The problem is that you just have a list of names to click on before seeing the publications, so there's a lot of browsing to do. If you go to Phil Edmonds URL <A href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~pedmonds/papers.html">http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~pedmonds/papers.html</A> you can actually see the titles of his publications. Some of which are on-line I suspect. </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Kindest regards,</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Linda</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Shekhar Pradhan <Shekhar.Pradhan@marist.edu><BR>To: corpora@uib.no<BR>Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:05:20 AM<BR>Subject: [Corpora-List] Boot camp for corpus linguistics?<BR><BR>Although I have a strong background in computer science and pretty good background in linguistics, statistical methods, machine learning, etc., I am new to the field of corpus linguistics. Are there any kind of summer institutes for introducing newbies to this field? Also, can anyone recommend a good introductory book to this field and a site which gives an annotated list of all the tools available in this field? Thanks in advance.<BR><BR>Shekhar Pradhan<BR>Computer Science, marist College<BR></DIV>
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