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Post by Hrafn Loftsson on Sept 23, 2010 5:03:52 GMT -5
You can use this thread for disussing and ask questions about the course material.
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Post by Kristinnt10 on Oct 21, 2010 11:52:46 GMT -5
Corpus: a corpus (plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed)
Can a Corpus be any arbitrary list of words/text? Does the meaning of the word corpus depend on how the text is used or what the text contains? Does Corpus possibly have dual meaning?
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Post by Hrafn Loftsson on Oct 25, 2010 6:35:18 GMT -5
Can a Corpus be any arbitrary list of words/text? Does the meaning of the word corpus depend on how the text is used or what the text contains? Does Corpus possibly have dual meaning? Yes, a corpus can be any arbitrary collection of texts. However, we would not call any arbitrary list of words a corpus. So, a corpus is a collection of texts or speech, written or spoken by someone. It doesn't really make a difference what the text contains. On the other hand, we talk about a "balanced corpus" if the text in the corpus is selected according to some predeterminated criteria. |
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