[Corpora-List] diachronic corpus tool

[Yorick WIlks]

Remind me to chat about the autocorpus proposal with Khurshid and Lou
Burnard at OUCS.
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On Sunday, November 7, 2004, at 09:13 PM, Christopher Brewster wrote:

> We are in the process of constructing a tool for the analysis of
> diachronic
> corpora.
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> I would be grateful for:
> 1. Pointers to previous research on diachronic corpora, especially
> concerning vocabulary development, terminological innovation etc.
> rather
> than style.
>
> 2. Any suggestions as to the kind of questions that would be of
> interest to
> be able to put to such a tool.
>  By this I mean, what are the abstract questions one would like to
> answer.
> This is in order to design the query facility more effectively.
>
> I have my own research questions but we do not want to make the tool
> very
> narrow.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Christopher Brewster
> Angelo Dalli
>
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