[Corpora-List] English Newspaper Corpora

[Tolkin, Steve]

I filled in the request form for the Reuters corpusat
http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/corpus/request.asp
and pressed submit.
They say (at
http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/corpus/how_to_apply.asp)
"Your request will be acknowledged by e-mail and you will be sent two copies
of the agreement through the postal service."

But I have not gotten the email acknowldgement.
Is the email sent manually?
Have other people successfully used this request form recently?

Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Rose [mailto:tgr at tonyrose.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 6:27 PM
> To: Siew Imm Tan; corpora at hd.uib.no
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] English Newspaper Corpora
>
>
> Have you tried the Reuters Corpus (Volume 1)? It's not
> downloadable as such, but
> you only need to fill in a form to obtain a copy (on CD). It
> comprises ~810,000
> English language news stories from the period 20/8/96 -
> 19/8/97, formatted in
> NewsML (a dialect of XML), so manipulating the raw data
> shouldn't be too
> problematic. It's available from:
>
> http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/corpus/
>
> Best regards,
> Tony
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Siew Imm Tan" <xiuyin at hotmail.com>
> To: <corpora at hd.uib.no>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:47 AM
> Subject: [Corpora-List] English Newspaper Corpora
>
>
> > Does anyone know of any English (UK, US or Australia)
> newspaper corpus that
> > can be downloaded and analysed using TACT and/or Wordsmith?
> I know that
> > Collins Wordbanks has three substantial newspaper
> components but these can
> > only be analysed using Lookup and the raw data cannot be
> downloaded. The BNC
> > can be analysed using Wordsmith but does not seem to have a specific
> > newspaper component. Any advice as to where such a corpus
> can be bought or
> > subscribe to would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Tan Siew Imm
> > Postgraduate Student
> > Department of English
> > University of Hong Kong
> >
> >
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