[Corpora-List] American and British English spelling converter

[Ramesh Krishnamurthy]

Hi Mark
Apologies, in my haste I used the term 'parallel' in a rather 'loose' 
(general, non-technical, non-translation)
way. What I meant was "corpora of contemporary British English and 
American English, with closely
matching/comparable contents and searchable with the same software".
Best
Ramesh


At 16:35 09/11/2006, Mark P. Line wrote:
>Ramesh Krishnamurthy wrote:
> >
> > ...and there is no obvious parallel corpus of Br-Am Eng to consult...
> > Do you know of one by any chance...
>
>
>Why would it have to be a *parallel* corpus?
>
>
>-- Mark
>
>Mark P. Line
>Polymathix
>San Antonio, TX
>
>
>
>
> > At 09:56 09/11/2006, you wrote:
> >>I find it fascinating that as soon as we find a linguistic topic
> >>which sparks the interest of everyone here, the discussion suddenly
> >>makes hardly any reference to corpora. Why are suddenly anecdotes,
> >>intuitions, folk theories and made-up examples preferable to
> >>consulting corpora?
> >>
> >>It's a serious question. It seems to me reasonable to bring in these
> >>other factors and pieces of evidence to inform a discussion about
> >>corpus linguistics, but why is almost no-one consulting a corpus, or
> >>consulting research papers based on corpora? Lack of resources? Lack
> >>of tools? Don't think that use of corpora is appropriate for this
> >> question?
> >>
> >>Martin
> >>
> >>--
> >>Martin Wynne
> >>Head of the Oxford Text Archive and
> >>AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
> >>
> >>Oxford University Computing Services
> >>13 Banbury Road
> >>Oxford
> >>UK - OX2 6NN
> >>Tel: +44 1865 283299
> >>Fax: +44 1865 273275
> >>martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Ramesh Krishnamurthy
> >
> > Lecturer in English Studies, School of Languages and Social Sciences,
> > Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
> > [Room NX08, North Wing of Main Building] ; Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812 ;
> > Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766
> > http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr.jsp
> >
> > Project Leader, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network): http://corpus.aston.ac.uk/

Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Lecturer in English Studies, School of Languages and Social Sciences, 
Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
[Room NX08, North Wing of Main Building] ; Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812 ; 
Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766
http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr.jsp

Project Leader, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network): http://corpus.aston.ac.uk/