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

[silvia bernardini]

Dear all,

I had originally sent this to Martin only, but he suggested it might be 
relevant to spark discussion on the list in preparation for the debate 
at ICAME.

So here is a link to the slides of a talk entitled "Do we still need 
corpora (now that we have the Web)?" that I gave at the 2008 Aston 
Postgraduate Conference on Corpus Linguistics:

http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/conf_proceedings.html
(top of the page)

It is clearly dated and rather partial as it mirrors my own interests in 
corpus building and using for/with translators and students of 
translation, but hopefully some ideas in there are still valid - and the 
coincidence with the titles was too striking to let it pass by...

hth,

silvia bernardini

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School for Interpreters and Translators
University of Bologna at Forlì, Italy


Il 03/02/2011 18.29, Martin Wynne ha scritto:
>  I hope that ideas generated on this list will  inform the debate 
> (which will be in Oslo, not Oxford!).
>>> 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.
>>


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