[Corpora-List] Do we still need language corpora?

[Kevin B. Cohen]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Martin Wynne <martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Do we still need language corpora? Is the selection and preparation of the
> carefully crafted corpus a waste of time and money these days when large
> amounts of language data are freely available on the web?
>
> If you are interested in this question then come along to a debate,
> organised by Martin Wynne and Ylva Berglund (Oxford) on the afternoon of
> June 1st 2011, and as a pre-conference event at the ICAME conference in
> Oslo.

Should we interpret this email as an open invitation for discussion on
the CORPORA list, or only as an invitation to attend the debate?
Probably there are many of us who won't make it to Oxford but do have
an opinion on this...

Kev

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