Re: Corpora: Collaborative effort

From: Jem Clear (jem@cobuild.collins.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jun 11 2000 - 12:27:51 MET DST

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    Phil

    Indeed I am turning the Murray OED procedure on its head.
    Re: quality control and sources: I do not believe that we should
    try too hard to address these things directly for two reasons:

    a) who would do the quality control? It would be a huge amount of
    work for someone to read through all submitted examples and ensure
    that they were "accurate". The key to my idea is that no-one has
    to carry oiut any major work -- becuase if they do they won't do
    it or they'll want funding to do it and once they've invested
    a major amount of time and effort into it they will become
    reluctant to hand the results over to the public domain. The
    quality-control people will in effect become the guardians of
    the growing database -- something I think we should avoid.

    b) the idea of quality control implies that there are clear
    criteria for acceptable and unacceptable input. I doubt this is
    the case. Why don't we trust our colleagues and admit that if they
    submit data that they believe is illustrative of the particular word/sense
    then this is as valuable data as any other. My firm belief and hope is
    that overall the central tendency will be towards a "correct" interpretation
    despite some percentage of "wayward" submissions.

    Cheers

    Jem



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