[Corpora-List] max sentence legnths

[radev at umich.edu]

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.
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> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Scott Songlin Piao <
> scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
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> > 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>
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Dragomir R. Radev                    Associate Professor
SI, CSE, Ling                     U. Michigan, Ann Arbor 
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