[Corpora-List] corpora and culture

[John Milton]

Hi. I've had a couple of queries lately about the corpus of UK students'
examination scripts. Have you incorporated these into the resources on
your site?

John

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Dr. John Milton
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Geoffrey Sampson wrote:

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> Leech and Roger Fallon's classic study of transatlantic cultural
> differences as revealed by vocabulary in LOB and Brown.
> 	Geoffrey and Roger point out that the differences may be out
> of date - the corpora are more than 40 years old, and Britain feels
> far more American to me now than it did in the 1960s.  It occurs to
> me to wonder whether anyone has used the Freiburg "FLOB and Frown"
> Corpora to add time-depth to the study - if anything like that has
> been done, our anthology ought to mention it?
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> Geoffrey Sampson  MA  PhD  MBCS
> Professor of Natural Language Computing
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> School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
> University of Sussex
> Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, England
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