[Corpora-List] Request for MSN Messenger 6.x Chat Logs

From: Steven Halim (g0403330@nus.edu.sg)
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 07:02:38 MET DST

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    I'm currently developing a tool to analyze information from MSN
    Messenger 6.x chat logs for my course project. The beta version of the
    tool, MSNMine, and a more detailed explanation of its usage is available
    for public use at my website:
    http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~stevenha/MSNMine.html

    For now, I need as many random samples of MSN Messenger 6.x Chat Logs as
    possible (they are in XML format) for the studies of current Instant
    Messaging usage pattern, especially those daily life conversations in
    different languages. What I have now is my own chat logs, which doesn't
    reflect the genericity of overall Instant Messaging usage around the
    world.

    If you have MSN Messenger version 6 onwards, save your own chat logs,
    and you are willing to help out, please send the content of your chat
    logs folder (default folder will be: ..\My Documents\My Received
    Files\your_msn_user_id_and_some_numbers\History) to my email:
    stevenhalim@gmail.com.

    Please remove chat log files that are considered too sensitive or
    contains secret information such as passwords, etc. I will not reveal
    any of your chat logs content and will delete them all once my research
    is completed.

    Your help will be greatly appreciated and acknowledged on the project
    report.

    Regards,
    Steven Halim
    Computer Science postgraduate student at National University of
    Singapore

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