[Corpora-List] World of Warcraft Corpus

[Clai Rice]

I had a student who wanted to do this some years ago. After looking at
terms of service, we decided the only way to do it ethically was to stand
in one of the trade or auction zones. He collected an interesting corpus
of selling language that he compared to print want ads, but there was very
little in it interesting for other kinds of interaction.

There was one other idea, which was to adopt a linguist persona in the
game, and go everywhere saying "I'm a linguist, can I please record our
conversation for anonymous use?" and get people to assent. We never tried
it.

The YouTube idea is a good one--there are hundreds of thousands of game
videos posted. But it would be hard to get any information about speakers,
and conversations are not always complete.

Clai Rice

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From: Valentini Mellas [mailto:valentini.mellas at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 7:34 AM
To: Tino Didriksen
Cc: liling tan; corpora at uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] World of Warcraft Corpus

Wouldn't that have too much noise from people selling goods at auction
though?


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Tino Didriksen <tino at didriksen.cc> wrote:
On 9 September 2013 07:46, liling tan <alvations at gmail.com> wrote:
Any suggestions/advice on how to collect a WoW chat corpus?

Use free Trial accounts to stand around in Orgrimmar and/or Stormwind and
log the trade chat by enabling /chatlog ( see
http://www.wowwiki.com/MACRO_chatlog ).

-- Tino Didriksen

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