[Corpora-List] All English Text Messaging Corpus?

[Trevor Jenkins]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, Rich Cooper <rich at englishlogickernel.com> wrote:

> Hi Laura,
>
> I don't know of any text message sources exactly like what your are
> describing.  But there is a huge, partially structured text database for US
> patent documents, nearly all in English I suppose, ...

Surely a highly specific genre of English; all about claims and prior art.
Nothing like English as she is spoke by the people likely to be sending
text messages.

> One advantage of choosing the patent database is that every document is
> constrained by the patenting process by experts in each patent's specific
> technologies, ...

Um, not so true. The (possibly once) head of the USPO admitted that many
dubious patents were being granted because the organisation did not have
the necessary expertise to evaluate the claims. This comment was
specifically made in relation to software patents, which are in any case a
highly contenious area.

Regards, Trevor

<>< Re: deemed!


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