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Corpus

Natural Language Processing · Level 2 of 5

Corpus

A collection of text or speech used for language analysis or training.

Its sources and sampling affect the model's coverage and biases.

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A researcher gathers a collection of newspaper articles.

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Corpus. A collection of text or speech used for language analysis or training. Its sources and sampling affect the model's coverage and biases. For example: A researcher gathers a collection of newspaper articles.

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