Corpora: when does a subcorpus become a corpus

[P. Kaszubski]

On 3 Jan 2002, at 11:36, Sampo Nevalainen wrote:

> representativeness remains. Here I agree with Ute Roemer, who wrote: "The
> important question in this context is 'What do you want to do with the
> (sub)corpus?'"
>

Absolutely, one simply needs to know what kind of text / genre etc.
one seeks the corpus to represent ...

> Ps. Please regard this as a note from a person who tends to consider the
> notion of "representative of a language" as an oxymoron, a "mission
> impossible".
>

... and how close, realistically speaking, one can get there.

Best regards,

Przemek



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