[Corpora-List] max sentence legnths

[Anil Singh]

I am sorry I missed your mail. I also am not able to locate my copy of the
book. The copy in the library has also been borrowed by someone.

The best I can do is to say that it was somewhere in the last 60-70% of the
book.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:35 PM, <radev at umich.edu> wrote:

> Can you post it or say on which page/chapter it appears? I'd love to
> show it in class.
>
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> > I had come across one sentence in the English translation of One Hundred
> > Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that was at least one and a
> half
> > pages long.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Scott Songlin Piao <
> > scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Does anyone have the information about the maximum English sentence
> lengths
> > > in the main genres, such as news reports, academic writings, speeches
> etc,
> > > ideally with publication references?
> > >
> > > With best regards
> > >
> > > Scott Piao
> > >
> > > School of Computer Science
> > > The University of Manchester
> > > Manchester, UK
> > >
> > > Email: scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk
> > >
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> > I had come across one sentence in the English translation of One Hundred
> Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that was at least one and a half
> pages long.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10
> PM, Scott Songlin Piao <<a href="mailto:scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk">
> scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> > <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204,
> 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
> > <br>
> > Does anyone have the information about the maximum English sentence
> lengths in the main genres, such as news reports, academic writings,
> speeches etc, ideally with publication references?<br>
> > <br>
> > With best regards<br>
> > <br>
> > Scott Piao<br>
> > <br>
> > School of Computer Science<br>
> > The University of Manchester<br>
> > Manchester, UK<br>
> > <br>
> > Email: <a href="mailto:scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk">
> scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk</a><br>
> > <br>
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> Dragomir R. Radev                    Associate Professor
> SI, CSE, Ling                     U. Michigan, Ann Arbor
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~radev <http://www.eecs.umich.edu/%7Eradev>
>     radev at umich.edu
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