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From: wmfong@cs.ust.hk (Eva Wai-Man Fong)
Subject: English corpus of simple sentences
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We are looking for an English corpus containing relatively short sentences
and limited vocabulary (like children's books) and yet of substantial
size, for training and testing a grammar induction procedure.  Does anybody
know of any such corpus available?

Many thanks.

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Eva Fong
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Dept of Computer Science
Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

