Re: [Corpora-List] Query on the use of Google for corpus research

From: Marco Baroni (baroni@sslmit.unibo.it)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 00:56:13 MET DST

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    > But then again, why not go simply to UPenn and purchase some
    > license for English Gigaword plus some additional tens of millions
    > words corpora from LDC?

    For example because I'm also interested in 1 billion words of Italian,
    German and Japanese? Or because I think that the web can give us a more
    varied picture of a language than a newswire corpus? But more in general
    because I think that, with all the linguistic data available out there on
    the web (probably orders of magnitude more data than the whole LDC and
    ELDA catalogues put together), it is a good idea to develop/gather/share
    tools and procedures to get them in "corpus format"...

    Which of course does not mean that prefab corpora do not have their
    function, as well.

    Regards,

    Marco

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