Review of Egbert, Jesse, Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray. 2022. Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

ISBN: 978-1-107-15138-3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316584880

Keywords: representativeness, domain, distribution, corpus design

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Published
2023-05-31
How to Cite
Pérez-Guerra, J. (2023). Review of Egbert, Jesse, Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray. 2022. Designing and Evaluating Language Corpora: A Practical Framework for Corpus Representativeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press . Research in Corpus Linguistics, 11(1), 147-155. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.11.01.06