> There is a term often used in CL - "balanced corpus". Can anybody
> tell or point me - is (if) this term strictly defined
-- emphatically not
> Does the definition "balanced corpus" include the properties
> ("balance" of them) of the inner structure of a corpus - or there is a
> balance of user's demands to its contents?
You can call a corpus <b>balanced</b> if it includes a range of the
different text types of the language, with their proportions of the
corpus reflecting, in some more-or-less principled way, their levels
of use in the language community at large.
See the BNC Manual, section 2.3, 3.1 --
http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/what/index.html
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