TY - BOOK AU - Beal,Joan C. AU - Corrigan,Karen P. AU - Moisl,Hermann AU - Poplack,Shana TI - Creating and digitizing language corpora SN - 9780230223202 U1 - 420.285 23 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Computational linguistics KW - Historical linguistics KW - Research KW - Data processing N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Volume 1; Synchronic Databases; Volume 2; Diachronic databases N2 - 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 ER -