[Corpora-List] Request People Name Corpus (English)

[Piotr Bański]

On 2010-06-14 19:18, Nathan Schneider wrote:
> Mark Kantrowitz's Names Corpus distributed with NLTK sounds like what
> you're looking for (at least for English):
> http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/nltk_data/index.xml

Thanks, this is an interesting resource. I can't help feeling that if we
start calling such lists corpora, the term will totally lose its
meaning. Or has it already?

A while ago, I saw a request for a "corpus of acronyms", which I thought
was a misuse of the term, perfectly highlighted by Rob Malouf's reply.
Now this comes up.

Note that I'm not asking for a definition of a corpus (oh no...), but
have its borders now become really so fuzzy as to allow for *lists* of
single words to be counted as "non-prototypical" corpora?

Thanks,

  Piotr


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