News across Five Continents - Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation - Jennifer Fest
6. Corpus Design
News across Five Continents - Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation - Jennifer Fest
Jennifer Fest [+]
RWTH Aachen University
Jennifer Fest graduated in linguistics from RWTH Aachen University.
Description
Chapter 6 describes the dataset used in this study. The sampling method, size and processing of data and the annotation and mark-up are explained separately and in detail. To make the corpus design and sampling decisions transparent and understandable, the notion of representativeness is also discussed.