User requirements analysis for the design of a reference corpus of written Dutch

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006)

Abstract

The Dutch Language Corpus Initiative (D-Coi) project aims to specify the design of a 500-million-word reference corpus of written Dutch, and to put the tools and procedures in place that are needed to actually construct such a corpus. One of the tasks in the project is to conduct a user requirements study that should provide the basis for the eventual design of the 500-million-word reference corpus. The present paper outlines the user requirements analysis and reports the results so far.