[Sigwac] Call for discussion: The SIGWAC crisis (instead, of an announcement of WAC-XI)

Roland Schäfer roland.schaefer at fu-berlin.de
Tue Aug 1 13:43:32 CEST 2017


Dear Silvia,

On 01.08.17 13:35, Silvia Bernardini wrote:
> Sorry, probably my fault: what I meant was that Yacy (or similar tools) could provide a means of freeing ourselves from web search engines (currently killing BootCaT-like tools), and in so doing revive interest in methods for collecting/cleaning/annotating/exploiting those specialized corpora that cannot be provided by large consortia, but will remain the realm of single individuals working DIY on very specialized topics. In other words, not that a linguist search engine would be in itself an interesting research object.

ah! Thanks a lot for the clarification. That makes total sense. Sorry
for distractions caused by my misreading of that.

Best,
Roland


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