Challenges of combining structured and unstructured data in corpus development
2021
Recent advances in the availability of ever larger and more varied electronic datasets,
both historical and modern, provide unprecedented opportunities for corpus linguistics and the
digital humanities. However, combining unstructured text with images, video, audio as well as
structured metadata poses a variety of challenges to corpus compilers. This paper presents an
overview of the topic to contextualise this special issue of Research in Corpus Linguistics. The aim
of the special issue is to highlight some of the challenges faced and solutions developed in several
recent and ongoing corpus projects. Rather than providing overall descriptions of corpora, each
contributor discusses specific challenges they faced in the corpus development process,
summarised in this paper. We hope that the special issue will benefit future corpus projects by
providing solutions to common problems and by paving the way for new best practices for the
compilation and development of rich-data corpora. We also hope that this collection of articles will
help keep the conversation going on the theoretical and methodological challenges of corpus
compilation
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