[Corpora-List] Corpus Benevolence

[Alexander Osherenko]

Eric,

> "benevolence" is a term I've not heard of before in Corpus Linguistics,
> but I think you mean something like "relevance" or "appropriateness" 
> to the
> specific research question...

I've never heard of the term "benevolence" too... :)

> One hint when selecting a Corpus is to look for similar studies to
> yours, and see what Corpus they used; if you use the same corpus, your
> results can be directly comparable (moreso than if you experiment with
> different corpora).

I've already experimented with some corpora in my research area (opinion 
mining) and there are some corpora that were studied before regarding 
analysis e.g. the Pang Movie Review corpus. There is some information 
about it e.g. the corpus contains 1000/1000 negative/positive reviews 
downloaded from the imdb.com website, but it is insufficient.

What I need is a thorough (e.g. linguistic) study of a corpus. You 
probably know the book by Leech about Frequencies in the BNC corpus. 
Something like that. Besides linguistic information I would like to get 
sociological information about a corpus e.g. how many reviewers took 
part in compiling and so on. Since I assume that I can oversee something 
I wanted to ask first.

Best,
Alexander