Looking for the Smoking Gun: Principled Sampling in Creating the Tobacco Industry Documents Corpus.
As a result of litigation over the past decade, major tobacco companies were compelled to make public a broad range of previously confidential documents. We have created a series of corpora from the tobacco industry documents (TIDs) for three purposes: (1) to establish baseline descriptions of vario...
| Publicado en: | Journal of English Linguistics Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 31 - 48 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
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