Creating and digitizing language corpora. Volume 1, Volume 2, Synchronic Databases/ Diachronic databases /
edited by Joan C. Bell, Karen P. Corrigan and Hermann L. Moisl ; foreword by Shana Poplack.
- 2 volume : illustrations ; 24 cm.
A range of electronic corpora has become accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This coincides with improvements in standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book develops similar standards for enriching and preserving 'unconventional' data': the fragmentary texts and voices left to us as accidents of history.