Re: Corpora: Zarf now freely available for civilian use. (fwd)

eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:16:34 +0100

Lou,
surely Zarf *does* have a meaning,
viz something like :
Zarf: a codeword used by US National Security Agency to reference specific
classified information; the term Zarf is UNCLASSIFIED, even though
Information protected by the Zarf codeword will continue to require
protection.

is this really very different from, say:

BNC: a codeword used by the international Corpus Linguistics community to
refer to a specific dataset; the term BNC is widely-used, even though
only a small cognoscenti have detailed knowledge of the contents and
structure of the dataset.

Eric (well,it's somthing to waste my lunchbreak on...)

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and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)
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