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

[Himanshu Sharma]

I think he (Mr. Jenkins) already mentioned that; --"In the end all our
definitions are subordinate to the question "what is going to be done
with the texts?" It the answer to that which moves them from library
to corpus."

Nonetheless, rather than blocking and highlighting the small pitfalls,
it would be nice if someone could take one for the team and summarize
the above discussion. A generalized form of definition would be much
appreciated. Mr. Krishnamurthy is doing that to some extent but his
replies are too specific and the skeleton of the definition is not
very clear, at least not to me.

-- Himanshu Sharma

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Alon Lischinsky <alischinsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012/10/4 Trevor Jenkins <trevor.jenkins at suneidesis.com> wrote:
>
>> A individual's collection of liked (and also unliked) texts surely is a
>> library not a corpus.
>
> It can be, if we are interested in exploring the range of written
> language varieties that a person is exposed to.
>
> A.
>
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