The Minho Quotation Resource

Brett Drury, José João Almeida


Abstract
Direct quotations from business leaders can provide a rich sample of language which is in common use in the world of commerce. This language used by business leaders often uses: metaphors, euphemisms, slang, obscenities and invented words. In addition the business lexicon is dynamic because new words or terms will gain popularity with businessmen whilst obsolete words will exit their common vocabulary. In addition to being a rich source of language direct quotations from business leaders can have ''real world'' consequences. For example, Gerald Ratner nearly bankrupted his company with an infamous candid comment at an Institute of Directors meeting in 1993. Currently, there is no ''direct quotations from business leaders'' resource freely available to the research community. The ''Minho Quotation Resource'' captures the business lexicon with in excess of 500,000 quotations from individuals from the business world. The quotations were captured from October 2009 and April 2011. The resource is available in a searchable Lucene index and will be available for download in May 2012
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L12-1351
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2280–2285
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/611_Paper.pdf
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Brett Drury and José João Almeida. 2012. The Minho Quotation Resource. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2280–2285, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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The Minho Quotation Resource (Drury & Almeida, LREC 2012)
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/611_Paper.pdf