<html><head><base href="x-msg://1619/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Also check out <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2468v1">http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2468v1</a> (Lots of info on collecting such corpora) or contact Tao Chen <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 51); font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><a href="mailto:taochen@comp.nus.edu.sg" style="text-decoration: underline; ">taochen@comp.nus.edu.sg</a></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000033" face="verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000033" face="verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font><div><div>On Apr 17, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Krishnamurthy, Ramesh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Optima; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi Thapelo<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">You should contact<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.forensiclinguistics.net/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.forensiclinguistics.net/</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/tagg-caroline.aspx" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/tagg-caroline.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">who have both collected corpora of text messages.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">best<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Ramesh Krishnamurthy<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Visiting Academic Fellow, School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br>Director, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network project):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/</span></a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Corpus Analyst:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">(a) GeWiss (Volkswagen Foundation) project:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/gewiss-spoken-academic-discourse/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/gewiss-spoken-academic-discourse/</span></a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">(b) Discourse of Climate Change:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/discourse-of-climate-change-project/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/discourse-of-climate-change-project/</span></a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">(c) Feminism:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/projects.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/projects.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">(d) COMENEGO (Corpus Multilingüe de Economía y Negocios) - Multilingual Corpus of Business and Economics:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://dti.ua.es/comenego" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">http://dti.ua.es/comenego</span></a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">(e) European Phraseology Project:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://labidiomas3.ua.es/phraseology/login/login.php" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">http://labidiomas3.ua.es/phraseology/login/login.php</span></a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">---------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:50:43 +0000<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">From: "<a href="mailto:otlogetswe@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">otlogetswe@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:otlogetswe@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">otlogetswe@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">Subject: [Corpora-List] A corpus of text messages<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">To: "<a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">corpora@uib.no</a>" <<a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">corpora@uib.no</a>><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">We wish to compile a corpus of text messages for a research project. Does anybody know if it is possible for contributors of text messages to connect their phones to a computer and copy the entire inbox or sent messages into a computer? We would very appreciate suggestions of this could be done.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">Regards<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">Thapelo<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>UNSUBSCRIBE from this page:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora</a><br>Corpora mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Corpora@uib.no</a><br><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>