以下是引用 xusun575 在 2006-3-15 9:53:45 的发言:
Those who work with computer corpora are suddenly finding themselves 
in an expanding universe. For years, corpus linguistics was 
the obsession of a small group which received little or no recognition 
from either linguistics or computer science. Now much is happening, 
and there is a demand for much more to happen in the future. This 
is exhilarating and gratifying for those who, like Jan Svartvik, have 
been on the corpus bandwagon since it was a little donkey cart -- 
when corpus work was, indeed, little else but donkey work. But 
gratification is also mixed with irony and nostalgia. After all, driving 
the donkey cart was much more fun!