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Re: bias

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Saturday, December 18, 2004, 22:13
--- Cristina Escalante <cristina@...> wrote:

> >Subject: McGuffey Corpus Project Begun
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> > ooh, interesting > How are you avoiding this bias? (Or, should you? But > that is another > story) >
I don't suppose there is any way to avoid some bias. One thing I try to do is to NOT pick the first way that comes to mind when I translate something new. And as time goes on I guess the first few hundred sentences will turn out to be a primative proto-language from which the true language will someday descend. --gary