[Corpora-List] What is corpora and what is not?

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Yuri,

a corpus is a collection of texts/speech.  We call it a corpus when we view
it as an object of linguistics or literary research.  The answers to your
questions are yes and yes.

Adam

On 2 October 2012 13:21, Yuri Tambovtsev <yutamb at mail.ru> wrote:

> **
> Dear corpora members, I do not understand, what corpora is and what
> corpora is not. Is the set the text of books by Charles Dickens is a
> Dickens corpora? What about the books of Ernst Hemingway and other writers?
> Looking forward to hearing your opinion to yutamb at mail.ru  Yours
> sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia
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