Abstract
The American National Corpus (ANC) project is developing a corpus comparable to the British National Corpus (BNC), covering American English. Recent interest in the web as a source of corpus materials has caused some in the language processing community to suggest that the development of a corpus of American English is unnecessary. However, we argue that far from being rendered superfluous by the availability of web materials, the ANC is likely to provide a resource for developing web acquisition techniques to support tasks such as genre and language detection and automatic annotation. This paper presents a comparison of the ANC in terms of both content and format with a test corpus compiled from web data, and a discussion of points of intersection and divergence.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages | 839-844 |
Number of pages | 6 |
State | Published - 2002 |
Event | 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2002 - Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain Duration: May 29 2002 → May 31 2002 |
Other
Other | 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2002 |
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Country/Territory | Spain |
City | Las Palmas, Canary Islands |
Period | 5/29/02 → 5/31/02 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Linguistics and Language
- Language and Linguistics
- Education
- Library and Information Sciences