10.0474 LOB & other ICAME corpora

WILLARD MCCARTY (willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:41:40 +0000 (GMT)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 474.
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers)
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
Information at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/

[1] From: Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de (55)
Subject: Re: 10.0469 English textual database =3D LOB corpus?

For the LOB have a look at:
http://www.hd.uib.no/cd_info.html

Information of how to get the corpora archived at ICAME can be found at:
http://www.hd.uib.no/corpora.html

Regards
Elisabeth Burr

At 19:23 26.11.96 +0000, you wrote:
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 469.
> Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers)
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> Information at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/
>
> [1] From: Francois Crompton-Roberts <F.Crompton- (26)
> Roberts@qmw.ac.uk>
> >
>
>> --[2]----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:15:51 -0500 (EST)
>> From: Leo Robert Klein <kleinl@is2.nyu.edu>
>> ...
>> Alas, one of the pitfalls of going through a lot of material is
>> occasionally remembering something--say a fact--only in the vaguest way
>> and then being unable to track it (back) down.
>>=20
>> My particular affliction concerns two humanities computing projects whic=
h
>> I can no longer find reference to though Lord knows, I've looked. This
>> being the case, would anyone remember or know of:
>...
>> =092) A collection of Modern English texts on the order of the Brown
>> =09=09Corpus (if not larger) done at a German university.
>>=20
>>=20
>> I'd appreciate any pointers.
>
>Just an afterthought that has just occurred to me,=20
>but could you by any chance be thinking of the=20
>"Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen" (LOB) corpus? I know,
>the last two places are in Norway, not Germany=20
>but memory can play tricks...
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Fran=E7ois Crompton-Roberts
>
>
>
>
>
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