Increasingly , corpus researchers are tapping the Web to overcome the sparse data problem ( Keller et al. , 2002 ) .
using the web to overcome data sparseness
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In corpus linguistics building such megacorpora is beyond the scope of individual researchers , and they are not easily accessible ( Kennedy , 1998 : 56 ) unless the web is used as a corpus ( Kilgarriff and Grefenstette , 2003 ) . Increasingly , corpus researchers are tapping the Web to overcome the sparse data problem ( Keller et al. , 2002 ) . This topic generated intense interest at workshops held at the University of Heidelberg ( October 2004 ) , University of Bologna ( January 2005 ) , University of Birmingham ( July 2005 ) and now in Trento in April 2006 .
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