NLP: Building (small) corpora, or “Where to get lots of not-too-specialized English-language text files?”
问题 Does anyone have a suggestion for where to find archives or collections of everyday English text for use in a small corpus? I have been using Gutenberg Project books for a working prototype, and would like to incorporate more contemporary language. A recent answer here pointed indirectly to a great archive of usenet movie reviews, which hadn't occurred to me, and is very good. For this particular program technical usenet archives or programming mailing lists would tilt the results and be hard