Open-source corpora: Using the net to fish for linguistic data

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 435-462

  Sharoff, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus composition; Frequency lists; Internet; Representative corpora

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247327866     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.11.4.05sha     Document Type: Article

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