[Corpora-List] Question: Citing Linguistic Corpora

[Marc Brysbaert]

Hi,

 

Researchers get most credit for their work when it is published in a journal
that features in ISI or Scopus, as it is then used for all types of metrics
(whether you like this or not). From my own experience, I've noticed that it
is not so easy, however, to get manuscripts on corpora (or word frequency
lists) published, even though they are well cited. Does anyone have a list
of ISI journals that publish information on corpora? Thus far I have
published most of my findings in Behavior Research Methods, but this is
aimed at a psychological audience (and hence will only accept papers that
are interesting for them).

 

Best, marc

 

From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
Adam Kilgarriff
Sent: 07 March 2013 08:37
To: M. Rezaei
Cc: corpora at uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Question: Citing Linguistic Corpora

 

Dear Morteza,

 

Yes, you definitely should cite the corpus.

 

It is always likely that your POS-tagger will have failings because of
characteristics of the corpus it was trained on.  People should be able to
look at it in this light, with an account of how the corpus was prepared,
available to them.

 

Sometimes there is no obvious way to cite the corpus.  Sometimes a URL is
best (which is what I do for example for the BNC, as the website is
long-life and with full and good documentation, and the only alternative is
to a technical report that no-one is actually going to track down).  As a
producer of corpora, I aim to write them up in a paper that is easy to find
and to read and serves as a reference.

 

 Adam

 

On 7 March 2013 06:27, M. Rezaei <mrezaeis at mehr.sharif.ir> wrote:

Dear all,

Salam.

Suppose I use a text corpus and I extract some statistical information from
it or I train a POS tagger based on it. Well, I have used the corpus, but I
have not directly used the paper which describes it i.e. I have not quoted a
paragraph from the paper in my research. Is there any standard style for
citing the corpus itself, as a data set? Is it a good idea to do so? What
about the corpus authors, do they prefer users to cite their paper rather
than the corpus itself?

Looking forward to receiving your responses.

Best Regards

Morteza Rezaei


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