[Air-l] email corpora sought

[Robert McArthur]

David Gibson wrote:
> I do research on micro-interaction and am advising an undergraduate 
> senior thesis on the topic of email communication -- specifically, on 
> the opportunities and challenges that define email as partially distinct 
> from face-to-face communication. She's having some predictable trouble 
> getting undergrads to share their email, and I'm looking around for 
> other email corpora that she might use. She's especially interested in 
> comparing formal-organizational with informal messages. Any leads are 
> appreciated; please be sure to send or cc responses to me directly as 
> I'm not a subscriber to this listserve.

David,
I'm in a similar boat - I'm doing research on finding expertise in 
communities (organisational CoP as well as CoI) by mining email. I'm 
trying to get my organisational (it's a research-based company) 
colleagues to give me access.   Unfortunately, I need to know the names 
of people (for anaphora resolution) so cannot just work on a corpus in 
which the names are turned into MD5 hashes or something similar.

I'd also be interested in any "standard" corpus, or even non-standard 
but freely available!

Robert
PS. pertinent publications are available at
   http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/Infoeco/publications/
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