[Corpora-List] English Newspaper Corpora

[Tony Rose]

> 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?

As I recall, yes it is. Reuters is going thru a few changes at the moment
(documented on the ReutersCorpora mailing list, which is linked from the URL I
gave) so you may need to bear with them a little while.

> Have other people successfully used this request form recently?

When I was last at Reuters (in June this year) we had around 250 registered
users, so yes, it is a sizable (and growing) community. But as I said, the
changes have meant that the service may not be instantaneous right now. FWIW you
may be also interested in Volume 2 - the multilingual version - which should
come out in due course (further announcements on this will be made via the
ReutersCorpora mailing list in the first instance).

Best regards,
Tony