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

[Justin Washtell]

I expect that phonesthemes hold the answer:

Blark resembles baulk, blurt, bark and berk, as well as blargh and blurgh and other sounds that people sometimes make when vomiting.

Bl also begins bleed[ing] (and bloomin'), blood[y], blight[ed], blither, blather and bludgeon.

I'm am looking forward to the day that computational models of semantics, sentiment and translation explore/exploit this basic linguistic phenomenon.

Justin Washtell
University of Leeds

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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Sampson [grs2 at sussex.ac.uk]
Sent: 07 February 2011 15:58
To: Martin Reynaert
Cc: corpora at uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Do we still need language corpora?

So it isn't just me.  Well done Martin for your comments on the acronym
"Blark", which I used to encounter frequently when I attended meetings of
the European ELSNET group led by Steven Krauwer.  It made me shudder every
time.  It would be interesting to try to analyse why this particular
phonologically well-formed English syllable is so ugly.

Geoffrey Sampson


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