Re[2]: Corpora: Corpus of IRC

bill_mann@sil.org
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:51:46 -0400

Hi:

Susan Herring did some fairly extensive work starting
several years ago, and now has a published book on the
subject.

Is your corpus going to be freely available for research?
It might help my work.

Happy assembling.

Bill Mann

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Subject: Re: Corpora: Corpus of IRC
Author: aharley@cup.cam.ac.uk at internet
Date: 7/20/99 3:55 AM

At 03:58 PM 7/19/99 -0500, Wernfrid wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm currently compiling a corpus of Internet Relay Chat. Is anybody aware
>of a similar project somewhere else?
>Thanks
>Wernfrid Doell

How do you deal with the permissions problem? Have users of Internet Relay
Chat given permission for their conversations to be downloaded into a
searchable corpus? Or is this no different in principle from a web archive?

Andrew Harley
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