[Corpora-List] Corpora Digest, Vol 53, Issue 14

[Tetreault, Joel]

Hi Keely, instead of collecting music reviews from news corpora, it might be more effective to go to music review sites and scrape them off the webpage.  Some good ones are:

allmusic.com - one of the largest repositories of music reviews in the world.  If you want to make a massive corpus, I would just scrape that.

pitchfork.com - has (indie) music reviews going back to 1999, and they have 5 or so album reviews a day.  The album reviews section is here:  http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/  They changed their site format a few months ago, but before that I scraped all the reviews to make a music review corpus.  I could zip that up and send it to you, though it may require some post-processing here and there.  There are over 10,000 reviews in that scrape.

metacritic.com - is a review aggregator site for movies, music, games, etc.  It has links to reviews on other websites and then normalizes the scores from each website to give a composite score.  

nme.com / spin.com / rollingstone - all have music reviews on their website, another good source for webscraping.

Joel

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:51:38 -0500
From: Keely <km.mimnagh at gmail.com>
Subject: [Corpora-List] North america newspaper corpus
To: corpora at uib.no

Hi I am a master's student. I am running a study on the language of music
critics. Does anyone know of a corpus that breaks down newspapers by
sections. So I can parse on music reviews?

Any help would be much appreciated.


Keely

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Keely Mimnagh
M.A. Candidate
Music and Culture
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
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