Initial corpus assembly

Your first corpus is just a list of text. You need enough authentic text to fill approximately one page—or about 5000 characters.

The text can be drawn from different sources, all ideally allowing for redistribution.

The assignment

This assignment is due at the beginning of class on the Thursday of the third week of class (this semester 11:20am on February 2, 2017).

For this assignment, you should create a private repository in your GitHub account called ling073-xyz-corpus. You should add your corpus to this repository. This should be named corpus.txt and should consist of one sentence per line.

The corpus will be built from materials as described at Building Corpora#Places to look for corpora. You may have to type up a certain amount of text using your new keyboard layout.

In your repository, you should also include a README file saying where the sentences come from. For instance, sentences 1 through 30 might come from Wikipedia, sentences 31 through 54 might come from a bible translation, 55 through 63 are examples from a grammar book, etc. Ideally all of your content will be redistributable (e.g., licensed under one of the Creative Commons licenses), but chances are that you will have to include non-redistributable content as well. So include mention of what license each of the sets of sentences is covered under. Use the README file to address anything else you think is important.

If you have English glosses of any of the sentences, you should enter these in a glosses.txt file, with available glosses on corresponding line numbers. This may result in a number of blank lines throughout the file. It would be good if at least a quarter of the sentences you include in your corpus have glosses.