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LINGUIST List 16.2978
Fri Oct 14 2005
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Martin Wynne, Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice,
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Date: 14-Oct-2005
From: Martin Wynne <martin.wynne [address-marker.gif] oucs.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice, Online

'Developing Linguistic Corpora: a guide to good practice', edited by
Martin Wynne of the Oxford Text Archive, is now available for free
online at http://ahds.ac.uk/linguistic-corpora/.

This is the latest in the series of Guides to Good Practice from the
Arts and Humanities Data Service. In this guide, a selection of leading
experts offer advice to help the reader to ensure that their corpus is
well-designed and fit for the intended purpose.

As John Sinclair writes in the first chapter: ''A corpus is a remarkable
thing, not so much because it is a collection of language text, but 
because of the properties that it acquires if it is well-designed and  
 carefully-constructed.''

The collection includes the following chapters:
   * 'Corpus and text: basic principles' by John Sinclair
   * 'Adding linguistic annotation' by Geoffrey Leech
   * 'Metadata for corpus work' by Lou Burnard
   * 'Character encoding in corpus construction' by Tony McEnery and
Richard Xiao
   * 'Spoken language corpora' by Paul Thompson
   * 'Archiving, distribution and preservation' by Martin Wynne

This and other guides in the series (in print and online) are available
from http://www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/

   Martin Wynne
   Head of the Oxford Text Archive and
   AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
   martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk