[Corpora-List] All English Text Messaging Corpus?

[Angus B. Grieve-Smith]

On 4/11/2011 9:43 AM, Khurshid Ahmad wrote:
> Dear Laura
> I am writing to support Rich.
>
> The USPTO documents are in Legal English and are written by Patent
> Attorneys -these documents form a representative sample of American
> English and to a lesser extent that of other national varieties of written
> English.

     Uh, people?  Laura asked for a text messaging corpus.  As in short, 
presumably spontaneous messages.  I think her query was very 
interesting, because we know that people use text and chat for many 
purposes besides personal ones.  Such a corpus (preferably with timing 
data) would enable us to differentiate between variation due to 
formality and variation due to spontaneity and time pressure.

     Rich hijacked that query to promote patents (which is a completely 
different text type) and his own software project (which is not remotely 
necessary to analyze the publicly available patent database).  Of course 
patents are worthwhile objects of study, but they're not text messages, 
and Rich's response was essentially spam.

     If anyone wants to promote their own project or suggest an area 
that deserves further study, go ahead, but start your own thread.

-- 
				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				grvsmth at panix.com


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