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

[Martin Wynne]

As I said at the bottom of the original message, discussion here is very 
welcome. I hope that ideas generated on this list will  inform the 
debate (which will be in Oslo, not Oxford!). We will also report back to 
the list after the event.

On 03/02/11 17:25, Kevin B. Cohen wrote:
> 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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