Re: [Corpora-List] diachronic corpus tool

From: Yorick WIlks (yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 11:36:14 MET

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    Remind me to chat about the autocorpus proposal with Khurshid and Lou
    Burnard at OUCS.
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    On Sunday, November 7, 2004, at 09:13 PM, Christopher Brewster wrote:

    > We are in the process of constructing a tool for the analysis of
    > diachronic
    > corpora.
    >
    > I would be grateful for:
    > 1. Pointers to previous research on diachronic corpora, especially
    > concerning vocabulary development, terminological innovation etc.
    > rather
    > than style.
    >
    > 2. Any suggestions as to the kind of questions that would be of
    > interest to
    > be able to put to such a tool.
    > By this I mean, what are the abstract questions one would like to
    > answer.
    > This is in order to design the query facility more effectively.
    >
    > I have my own research questions but we do not want to make the tool
    > very
    > narrow.
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Christopher Brewster
    > Angelo Dalli
    >
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