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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread - I have really enjoyed it. Khalid made a passing reference
to the UK position - this has recently become quite permissive for non-commercial text mining research, but we have been debating back and forth in Lancaster exactly what this means for corpus linguists. Due to the case-law nature of English Law we won't really
know until some cases have been brought forward and we are able to see how the laws/regulations are to be interpreted, hence Khalid's comment about the situation being unclear, I assume. Anyway, for those of you interested in the new exceptions to copyright
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<b>Sent:</b> 06 January 2015 13:36<br>
<b>To:</b> corpora@uib.no<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Corpora-List] Copyright question again<br>
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<p>Marc Brysbaert wrote:<br>
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<p>>> <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">For what it is worth, in my experience word frequency lists and N-gram lists are not a problem. </span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(31,73,125)">I agree. I've distributed COCA/COHA word frequency (http://www.wordfrequency.info) and n-grams (http://www.ngrams.info) data for several years now, and I've never had any
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<p>>> <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:15px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The big problem we are encountering is that currently there is no guidance about whether corpora can be shared. As a result, nearly all
corpora assembled remain next to inaccessible, meaning that everyone has to collect their own corpus. This is a lot of needless work and also means that little cumulative work can be done.</span><br>
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<p>I've also been distributing "full-text" data from 450 million word COCA and the 1.9 billion word GloWbE (http://corpus.byu.edu/glowbe) for a while now, and again no problems to this point. There is a "twist", though, in terms of how the full-text data has
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<p><a href="http://corpus.byu.edu/full-text/limitations.asp" target="_blank">http://corpus.byu.edu/full-text/limitations.asp</a><br>
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<p>​Best,<br>
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Mark Davies<br>
Professor of Linguistics / Brigham Young University<br>
<a tabindex="0" href="http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/" target="_blank">http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/</a></p>
<p>** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **<br>
** Historical linguistics // Language variation **<br>
** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **<br>
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