| Item Name: | North American News Text Corpus |
| Authors: | David Graff |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC95T21 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-053-5 |
| Data Type: | text |
| Data Source(s): | newswire |
| Project(s): | EARS, GALE, Hub4, MUC, TIDES |
| Application(s): | information retrieval, language modeling |
| Language(s): | English |
| Language ID(s): | eng |
| Distribution: | 1 DVD |
| Member fee: | $0 for 1995, 1996, 1997 members |
| Non-member Fee: | N/A (Members Only) |
| Reduced-License Fee: | N/A |
| Extra-Copy Fee: | US$300.00 |
| Member License: | yes |
| Online documentation: | yes |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members |
| Citation: | David Graff 1995 North American News Text Corpus Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia |
The North American News Text corpus is composed of news text that has
been formatted using TIPSTER-style SGML markup. The text is taken
from the following sources:
Source Dates Approx. # Words Covered (Millions) ------------------------------------------------------- Los Angeles Times & 05/94-08/97 52 Washington Post New York Times News 07/94-12/96 173 Syndicate Reuters News Service 04/94-12/96 85 (General & Financial) Wall Street Journal 07/94-12/96 40 ------------------------------------------------------- Both the New York Times and the L. A. Times/Washington Post services actually include a range of other newspaper sources in their syndicated newswires. The L. A. Times/Washington Post material will be found to include the following sources (in lesser amounts) in addition to the two predominant sources:
The New York Times material will be found to contain the following sources (in lesser amounts), but N.Y. Times articles predominate:
Both of these newswire services also include small numbers of articles from a larger set of miscellaneous sources. The ones listed above appear with some frequency on a daily basis. CopyrightPortions © 1994-1996 Dow Jones & Company, Inc., © 1994-1997 Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, Inc., © 1994-1996 New York Times, © 1994-1996 Reuters America, Inc., © 1995-1997 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.PricingThe Reduced Licensing Fee for this corpus is US$300. Content Copyright | |
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