Re: Newspaper article corpora

There is also a free Reuters one put together by Lewis:
http://www.daviddlewis.com/resources/testcollections/reuters21578/

Chris

Mark Davies wrote:

> > Does anyone know of corpora devoted to English language 
> > newspaper articles (possibly available online)?  I saw that 
> > Reuters has developed one, but there are a few hurdles to 
> > navigate in order to access it.
> >    
>
> The BNC has about 10-11 million words from newspapers, and is available
> as part of the VIEW site (http://view.byu.edu). 
>
> This site also allows you to search just one part of the 100 million
> word corpus (i.e. just the newspapers), so this may be a useful feature
> for you. Finally, you can even zero in on just sub-registers of
> newspapers (broadsheet, tabloid, sports reporting, etc).
>
> Best,
>
> Mark Davies
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