<div dir="ltr"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">(Apologies for cross-postings)</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">*** The GUM Corpus - Public Survey ***</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">*** Georgetown University Multilayer Corpus ***</font></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br style="font-size:small"></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;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="https://gucorpling.org/corpling/" target="_blank"> <b>Corpling Lab at Georgetown University</b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;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/1FAIpQLSfDyzbvHHvQKTcwC9Ym9bp-_DlEV8XvBX-6_Bxu5mr7CeHWBA/viewform?usp=header" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;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></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br style="font-size:small"></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;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/SQkfN8MTHNXo32Z3A" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;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/SQkfN8MTHNXo32Z3A</span></a></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br style="font-size:small"></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;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, textbooks, podcasts, letters, L1 essays, and oral court arguments. 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 12 series containing over 291K tokens annotated for multiple layers. For more information and to search or download the corpus online, see: </span><a href="https://gucorpling.org/gum/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://gucorpling.org/gum/</span></a></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br style="font-size:small"></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We value your opinions and appreciate your participation and help! For full consideration, please respond to the survey by the end of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;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">July</span><span style="font-size:11pt;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></font></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br style="font-size:small"></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Our lab will be attending the ACL 2026 main conference, CODI-CRAC, and LAW XX in San Diego, so please feel free to come talk to us if you are in attendance as well! </font></span></p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><br style="font-size:small"></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Best,</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Lauren Levine</font></span></p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Lauren Levine</font></b><div><b><font face="georgia, serif">Ph.D. Student | Computational Linguistics</font></b></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Department of Linguistics</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Georgetown University</font></div></div></div></div>