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

[Alberto Simões]

yes, we need!

On 04/02/2011 14:53, Janne Bondi Johannessen wrote:
> Dear all.
> I have been responsible for developing many corpora at the University of
> Oslo, and I can safely say that there is hardly any of them that have
> any competition from the web. Leaving aside the question of user
> interface, there are many features that are not present in web
> documents, and that are important for users (linguists, text researchers
> and language technologists). Here are some:
>
> - spoken language
> - dialects
> - speech situations
> - dialogue
> - source and translated texts
> - free choice of text types and genres
> - grammatical annotation (and other linguistic annotation)
> - background information on the text producers (age, gender, mother
> tongue, place of birth, place of living, education etc.)
>
> For more information on our corpora, see:
> http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/organization/text-laboratory/
>
> Best wishes,
> Janne Bondi Johannessen
>
>
>
> 2011/2/4 Mark Davies <Mark_Davies at byu.edu <mailto:Mark_Davies at byu.edu>>
>
>     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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>     Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
>     Brigham Young University
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>     Web: http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu
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> Janne Bondi Johannessen
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