Jesse Egbert, Douglas Biber & Bethany Gray. Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 284 pp.

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Published online: 26 November 2024

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Article outline

1.Introduction
2.Summary of chapters
3.Evaluation
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Jesse Egbert, Douglas Biber & Bethany Gray. Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 284 pp.

Jesse Egbert, Douglas Biber & Bethany Gray. Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 284 pp.