Our corpus is your corpus.
[ Here is our P3P corpus , be it your corpus as well. ] Giving away your corpus (in empirical language analysis or elsewhere) is perhaps nothing extremely established, but it's nothing original or strange either. It does make sense a lot! Stop limiting the impact of your research efforts! Stop wasting the time of your community members! Sharing corpora is one of these many good ideas of Research 2.0: see SSE'10 (and friend events ), eScience @ Microsoft, R2oSE , ... Computer Science vs. Science When you do academic CS research in programming- or software development-related contexts , then the culture of validation is these days such that you are often expected to provide online access to your program, application, library, tool, what have you as an implementation or illustration. There are various open-source repositories that are used to this end--as a backend (a storage facility), but any sort of author-hosted download locations are also used widely. In basic terms, if ...