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Re: Bunch of similar texts

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From: Dave Fawthrop
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 06:00
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On 5 May 2003 21:23:12 -0700, lbrtchx@hotmail.com (Albretch) wrote:

| Hi,
|     I have been trying to find somewhere a representative bunch of
| similar texts, but don't see such corpora on the internet.
| 
|  So you know of any collection of regular language collections of
| texts written by many different people on a topic?

There are *many* on line newspapers,  in many languages form many
countries.  You could select out all reports of football or even all
reports of a single match.   All reports of the Iraq war would produce
megabytes of text.

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From: Dave Fawthrop <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Bunch of similar texts
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 07:00:20 +0100
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