[Corpora-List] Testing how representative a particular corpus is

[Mike Scott]

On 27/01/2014 01:33, Angus Grieve-Smith wrote:
>     Right.  Here's what I don't get: Why hasn't anyone followed even a 
> single speaker around, let alone a representative sample, to see what 
> proportion of registers and genres they're exposed to on a daily 
> basis?  Or has this been done?

I think the Czech National Corpus people did (something like) that for 
both written and spoken Czech, in order to help them build up their 
corpus. Anyone from Prague able to confirm that?

Cheers -- Mike

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