Corpora: What is a corpus

[jock at ccl.umist.ac.uk]

The following may help answer this query:

http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/corpustyp/corpustyp.html

particularly the section on definitions.

This document was written as part of the EAGLES initiative (European
Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards) and thus reflects
a consensus on 'what is a corpus' among a wide community concerned with
corpora.

JMcN
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