[Corpora-List] [discussion] Re: Enough already

[Graham White]

You know, I think that the corpora list is actually quite good
at maintaining a balance between bulletin-board sort of stuff and the
more philosophical stuff: speaking as a philosopher, I do find it 
very useful as a list where, if you want to know "What do computational
linguists think about blah", you could put up a question and get it
answered quickly and well. The balance is important, and quite rare. 

Graham

On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 20:19 +0200, DJamé Seddah wrote:
> Le 24 oct. 2011 à 19:15, Paula Newman a écrit :
> 
> > Re:
> >> Maybe those who want to continue can find a chat-room somewhere?
> > 
> > That's a bit harsh.  Just for curiousity, I searched Google Groups to find discussions of the "peer review process", and found them on quite a few discipline-specific lists. 
> > 
> > However, corpora list is one of many  lists intended primarily as a bulletin board  for people with similar interests, in this case publishing announcements of conferences, corpus and tool availability,  and employment opportunities, and providing a forum for relatively brief  interactions on technical issues.   Long "philosophical" discussions are really not suitable here.
> 
> 
> How about just adding a tag such as [discussion] on such threads so that people can filter them out if they want?   I do think that having those discussion on an unmoderated
> list so widely read is indeed sometimes painful but absolutely necessary if we want to keep this community alive and animated. We don't  really need yet another read-only list, corpora
> is probably one of the last   remaining list where debates and arguments can randomly occur  and it's refreshing.
> 
> 
> Best,
> Djamé
> 
> 
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