Collaboration

There are a number of different ways that you can collaborate with others:

• Add your activities and interests to an online database, and search the entries for others
   

  • People: personal profiles showing who uses the corpora, and what they use them for. Create or modify a profile or search the listings of other people.
     

  • Notes. As you're using the corpora, you might run across some interesting data that you'd like to share with others. Via your personal History page (at any of the corpus websites), you can create create a short note that contains a link to re-do the query, as well as explaining the query and the data it finds. These can then be shared with students, colleagues, or anyone else. You can also search the notes that others have created.
     

  • Projects. Have you created some corpus-based projects for your students? Or have you found some data that isn't quite ready for a publication or conference presentation, but where you'd like to get feedback from others? Share these projects here, or search the entries from other people.
     

  • Publications. Have you published an academic paper, given a conference presentation, or written a thesis or dissertation that are based on data from the corpora? Submit a citation here, or look at the submissions from others.
     

• Another option is to add a Facebook or MySpace group for users of the corpora, particularly those from a give country or language background. If you're interested in working with others on this, you might mention this on the Google Groups discussion group, mentioned above.
   

• Volunteer to help with the corpora (in as little as thirty seconds), such as creating tutorials or other materials to help new users (perhaps in the native languages of some of these users).
   

• Finally, if you'd like some collaboration with the corpus creator(s), invite us to come teach a series of workshops at your university.