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5 total messages Started by Albretch Tue, 06 May 2003 04:23
Bunch of similar texts
#6958
Author: Albretch
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 04:23
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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?

 Thanks
Re: Bunch of similar texts
#6959
Author: Suzanne S. Barnhill
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 13:10
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I think you'll have to explain a little more clearly what you're looking
for. Also, while it's possible that this question is appropriate for the
other NGs to which you've cross-posted, it seems unlikely to be germane in
microsoft.public.word.docmanagement.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word

"Albretch" <lbrtchx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:f8544ad2.0305052023.e590a2c@posting.google.com...
> 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?
>
>  Thanks
Re: Bunch of similar texts
#6957
Author: William Penrose
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 19:12
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lbrtchx@hotmail.com (Albretch) wrote in message news:<f8544ad2.0305052023.e590a2c@posting.google.com>...
> 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?

Don't know exactly what you're talking about, but: 

Project Gutenberg:
http://www.promo.net/pg/

They have enough texts to choke on. 

Bill Penrose
Re: Bunch of similar texts
#6955
Author: Albretch
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 01:26
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Let's say you make students write essays on a topic, of course (and
hopefully :-) ) not all of them will write the same paper.

 I need copies of these types of student papers. WHere could you get
them?

 At gutenberg you get lots of different books -from different
author's-

 I crossposted this message to pertinent groups, I think.
Re: Bunch of similar texts
#6956
Author: 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.

Dave Fawthrop <dave@hyphenologist.co.uk>    Some of my hobbies: 
VDU Glasses http://www.hyphenologist.co.uk/vduglass, Wordlists ../wordlist 
Celtic fonts ../celtic,   Killfile & Anti Troll FAQs ../killfile
Yorkshire Dialect ../songs,  Curry Project ../bradfordcurryproject
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