[Corpora-List] extrapolating to 1 million

[Oliver Mason]

But what's the point in extrapolating?  It's scientifically unsound,
as you basically invent things of which you don't know how they're
going to be distributed.  Any claims based on that are extremely shaky
if not outright invalid.

So the right answer should be: "No, you can't, and you should tell
anybody who asks you to do this that this is not appropriate."

Otherwise, why would we ever have needed to build corpora other than
Brown or LOB?  Just extrapolate...

Oliver


-- 
Dr Oliver Mason
Technical Director of the Centre for Corpus Research
School of English, Drama, and ACS
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT

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