<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-46775faf-7fff-87fc-9bfb-fec8b94e04a3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(Apologies for cross-postings)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">*** The GUM Corpus - Public Survey ***</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">*** Georgetown University Multilayer Corpus ***</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The</span><a href="http://corpling.uis.georgetown.edu/corpling/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Corpling Lab at Georgetown University</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> would like your participation in </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeujklJN3F_HXAby5IJyljbQUkWcjoN7da3b2125U3THo9a8g/viewform?usp=sf_link" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">this survey</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> to help us better understand GUM usage and preferences regarding current and potential new genres in the GUM corpus, which would be of great help for our future selection of genres and availability of formats and annotation layers.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Survey Link:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><a href="https://forms.gle/y1JCfqkfUZZiGoFy8" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://forms.gle/y1JCfqkfUZZiGoFy8</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">GUM is an open source corpus of richly annotated English texts from multiple genres: academic, bio, fiction, interview, news, travel, how-to, Reddit forum discussions, conversations, political speeches, CC vlogs, and textbooks. The corpus is created by students as part of the Computational Linguistics curriculum at Georgetown University and is available under Creative Commons licenses. As of now, the GUM Corpus has released 9 series containing over 200K tokens annotated for multiple layers. For more information and to search or download the corpus online, see: </span><a href="https://gucorpling.org/gum/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:n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