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Where can I find a text corpus of English language personal email on the web?

17th February 2011

My answer to Where can I find a text corpus of English language personal email on the web? on Quora

The Enron email corpus is pretty useful, though I don’t know how “normal” you would consider it.

Posted 17th February 2011 at 5:31 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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