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> -----Original Message-----
> From: eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk [SMTP:eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 2:17 PM
> To: Lou Burnard
> Cc: corpora@hd.uib.no
> Subject: Re: Corpora: Zarf now freely available for civilian
> use. (fwd)
>
> 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...)
>
>
> Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, SOCRATES
> Coordinator,
> and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech
> (CCALAS)
> School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT,
> England
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