[Corpora-List] Guidance Needed for Corpus Building

From: Daniel Yacob (corpora@geez.org)
Date: Wed Apr 13 2005 - 09:59:51 MET DST

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    Greetings,

    I'm at the very starting point of compiling an Amharic corpus
    comprised of a large number of files and word lists in my
    possession. I'm investigating starting my own project vs
    joining an existing effort.

    I have found lots of information from the LinguistList site
    and in particular "David Lee's Bookmarks for Corpus-based
    Linguists". However, it is a lot of info to sort thru and
    I can not evaluate well the usefulness of some resources.
    For example, the "XML Corpus Encoding Standard" looks promising
    but documentation has not changed in nearly 3 years -is it
    widely used or a dead project? The Linguistic Data
    Consortium appears to have the right goals but is also
    subscription based -? I want to keep the data available freely.

    I would be grateful if people here could send recommendations
    for tools to use and references for groups active in
    developing free corpus materials.

    thank you,

    Daniel

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