We need data for our students to analyse in our courses for foreign
students. We are looking for discussions in web forums that would
satisfy the following criteria:
- In English
- Publicly viewable
- Structured into topics with a reasonable number (5-50?) of
messages per topic
- About topics of general interest
These would be a bonus:
- About some concurrent events that are discussed in several boards
worldwide
- Containing some argumentation, not just expressions of opinions.
- Threaded discussions where the comment-relations can be inferred
from indentation or html-markup.
- Simple elegant html-markup (easier to rip into text-files)
If you know such discussions, please send me the address where I can find them.
I'm prepared to build ripper-programs for one or two types of boards
(each board requires a separate program - takes a better programmer
than I to build a general-purpose ripper). The programs will produce
groups of ascii-files suitable for at least Atlas/TI.
If the project is successful, I will share the files if you ask me
Probably I cannot make them public for copyright reasons. (?)
-Timo Harmo
Computing Coordinator, Fac of Soc Sci, U of Helsinki. Tel 358 09
191 24915
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