[Corpora-List] SourceForge as a corpus

[radev at umich.edu]

We need a public corpus repository.  Perhaps something worth starting
a discussion about.

> 
> On Jan 24, 2008 3:46 AM, Martin Wynne <martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > - making the corpus available, and continuing support for its storage,
> > use and licensing
> > - long-term archiving and preservation
> 
> Martin was right to include these.  They are the only part of the list
> where I'm not pessimistic.  Lately the Biomedical Text Mining Group at
> the University of Colorado School of Medicine has experimented with
> using SourceForge as a distribution mechanism.  So far, no problems.
> 
> A non-rhetorical question: if there are people on this list from the
> LDC who think that SourceForge is a bad idea, I would be interested in
> hearing the counter-arguments.  Note also that SourceForge has more to
> do with long-term archiving and preservation and with making the
> corpus available than it does with continuing support, per se.
> 
> Kev
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> K. B. Cohen
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> Center for Computational Pharmacology
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Dragomir R. Radev                    Associate Professor
SI, CSE, Ling                     U. Michigan, Ann Arbor 
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