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

[Jernej Vicic]

Dear Adam!

Does it have to be an object of linguistics or literary research for a collection of text to be called a corpus? I would broaden the scope to any kind of research.

Adam Kilgarriff wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:yutamb at mail.ru>  Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev,
>     Novosibirsk, Russia
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