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From: macrakis@harvard.UUCP (Stavros Macrakis)
Newsgroups: net.internat,net.nlang
Subject: Texts in other languages
Message-ID: <517@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 15:30:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 20 15:30:02 1985
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Organization: Aiken Comp. Lab., Harvard
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Keywords: text, natural language, corpus
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For an experiment in text compression, I would find it useful to have
a collection of texts in a variety of languages.  Ideally, I would
like a half-dozen distinct texts, each 2000-15000 words long, in each
language.  The texts should be in a consistent (documented)
transcription, preferably without formatting commands.  The texts need
not be selected to be `representative' of the language.  For instance,
technical papers are fine.  The languages in which I am interested are
French, Italian, German, (Modern) Greek, Arabic, and Turkish.  If you
have texts in other languages, please let me know.

If you could send me mail describing the texts you might be able to
provide, we can find some way of transferring them later.

  Thanks
	-s

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