Corpora:English weather corpus

[Steven Krauwer]

> Katia Kermanidis wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Could anyone please infrom me if there is an English corpus of
> weather domain context such as forecasts, announces etc?

If you are looking for a clean, annotated corpus I'm afraid
I can't help you, but what I have on offer is a collection
of (hourly downloaded) Irish TV teletext weather forecasts
from October 1996 onwards. Straight, plain ascii downloads,
including all the errors, typos, etc, but pretty easy to
process.

Some 20 million word tokens and some different 5400 word forms
(isn't it amazing that you need so little to describe all weather
conditions over a period of 6 years?).

Just have a look at http://www-sk.let.uu.nl/mydocs/ttpage.htm
and contact me if you are interested or need more info.

Steven

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