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

[Mark Davies]

Martin,

I would imagine that one motivation for the question is the availability of "corpora" like Google/Web and Google Books. Of course, one needs to distinguish between:

corpus = textual corpus (i.e. words and sentences + metadata)
and
corpus = textual corpus + architecture and interface for accessing the information

Many wonderful textual corpora are "trapped" inside an architecture and interface that don't allow users to do much with them. As everyone dealing with "Web as Corpus" knows, effectively and efficiently using Web/Google/Books data -- especially via the native Google interface -- is a real challenge.

Two pages that might be relevant:

http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/compare-googleBooks.asp

http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/compare-google.asp

Best,

Mark D.

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Brigham Young University
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