Corpora: Re: What is a Corpus

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Re: What is a corpus?

	Enough of the essays - let's get quantitative!

As Vladimir says,

> what is a corpus, is it balanced or/ and
> representative.
 ...

> Is  there  a  quasi-logical  procedure  of defining - is this
> collection (dump) of textual data a representative corpus?  This is  the
> starting point of all the following activity - is it scientific one or
> paid hobby?


We are planning a workshop at ACL 2000 (Hong Kong, October),

	Title: "Comparing corpora"

with the objective of seeking quantitative responses to the issue.
Watch this space.


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