RE: for general discussion

[Chris Gooch <chris -dot- gooch -at- lightworkdesign -dot- com>]

Victoria Camgros wrote:
>
>
>At 12:06 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Sean Hower wrote:
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>>Just read this
>>
>>http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1057602931.html
>>
>>Thought it was interesting. What's everyone take on this?
>
>I'd love to know the makeup of the "British National Corpus". 


The BNC is simply a very large collection of British English
texts, marked up electronically (SGML) to make it useful
for computational analysis; computational linguists can
test algorithms against it for example, or you can use
it to train your nueral net (or whatever the latest AI
research activity is, I'm 10yrs out of date I guess).

http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/using/index.html

I would think there are _all sorts_ of a priori issues
with using such a corpus to justify psycho-social
mumbo jumbo, but that won't stop 'em trying. :-)

HTH, Chris.

Christopher Gooch, Technical Author
LightWork Design, Sheffield, UK.
www.lightworkdesign.com
SIGGRAPH 2003...Booth 3431...San Diego, California...29-31 July 2003







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