The Internet Corpora

[James A. Crippen]

Could the World Wide Web and all the text in various languages available
on it be considered legitimate forms of corpora?  Granted there are a
large number of spelling mistakes (try searching for 'trasnlation' or
'lingiust'), and a large number of obvious grammatical errors (search for
'if he love me' for example), but the extant text available online
certainly exceeds the size of any corpus for a major language by orders of
magnitude.

In the future, will we start seeing explicit WWW search results in
papers?  This could easily become a major point of argument...

'james

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