Talk:Brown Corpus

I have removed the link to perform an online search because that website requires a password. 124.171.71.36 (talk) 11:55, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Removed the following dead link in Links section:

• W3-Corpora project

[n.b.: the earlier comment about removing a link to a passworded website is not mine] Mathglot (talk) 00:53, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

The name of the compiler of the Brown Corpus is actually Kučera. – ishwar  (speak) 15:25, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

"In 1961/1963, Kucera and Francis published their classic work Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (1967)." One of these dates must be wrong? 08:04, 22 March 2012 (UTC)130.195.124.56 (talk) User:Furius

I've removed the earlier date because I could find no earlier date than 1967 (at the U.S. Library of Congress, for instance). Whoever added "1961/1963" might've confused that book with the creation of the corpus (developed based on 1961 publications in 1963–1964). —Mrwojo (talk) 16:11, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi, On the book cover it's Henry Kucera and W. Nelson Francis see https://books.google.fr/books/about/Computational_Analysis_of_Present_day_Am.html?id=gb5ZAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y 128.93.66.186 (talk) 17:53, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

This copy of the manual has a different set of tags listed. It's much longer, but we also list tags that aren't in the official list, like JJCC. I don't know if there's more than one version of the tags, or if our list is incorrect. -- Walt Pohl (talk) 09:59, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, these tags are completely wrong. They're apparently taken from here: https://www.scribd.com/document/651872451/Sidaama-Parts-of-Speech-Tagger and are specific to the Sidama language of Ethiopia. The correct tags are in the manual. 72.197.9.15 (talk) 21:01, 11 October 2025 (UTC)