Information about corpora in/of Russian.

[R_L]

Dear Seelangsters,

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R_L

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>Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 09:46:46 +0200
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>From: Max Del Gatto <mdelgatto at sslmit.unibo.it>
>Subject: Information about corpora in/of Russian.
>
>Dear Sir,
>
>My name is Max Del Gatto and I am student in English and Russian at the
>School for Interpreters and Translators in Forli' (Italy).
>
>I am about to write my degree thesis on corpus linguistics/theory of
>translation: the aim of my thesis will be the design of a corpus of the
>Russian language.
>
>Searching for corpora-things on the WEB I had the unbelievable luck of
>bumping into your page. (http://ash.swarthmore.edu/slavic/rusweb.html
>"Russian Studies on the WEB")
>
>I would endlessly appreciate, if you could kindly
>
>- let me know whether you know any Universtiy that has already started the
>designing of or has already built a corpus in Russian, or
>- forward my letter to those who deal with the subject-matter, or
>- supply me with reference materials of your choice (i.e., I have already
>collected some interesting material about the designing of the Brown corpus
>. http://khnt.hit.uib.no/icame/manuals/brown/INDEX.HTML "Brown Corpus
>Manual" . and I would like to duplicate the corpus in Russian, but I think
>I will have to discuss why I chose the Brown corpus design as a model on a
>very 'academic bases'):
>
>this will really help me writing my degree thesis and it will also lay the
>very bases for possible future cohopeartion between your University and mine.
>
>In the meanwhile, I am writing to all the University listed in your page: I
>hope something will popo out eventually!
>
>Looking very forward to hearing from you very soon, my thanks and best
>regards.
>
>Max Del Gatto
>
>Undergraduate Student at /Laureando alla
>SSLMIT (Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e
>Traduttori/School for Interpreters and Translators) - Forli' - Italy
>
>RSVP
>
R_L