In Search of Oblivion? How the 'Right to be Forgotten' Could Undermine Web-based Corpora

Sharon Creese

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.424

In Search of Oblivion? How the 'Right to be Forgotten' Could Undermine Web-based Corpora

Sharon Creese

Vice-Chancellor's Office

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Abstract

Corpus linguists are now facing a new challenge to collecting accurate data for web-based corpora: the 'Right to be Forgotten'. This element of data protection legislation allows individuals to request that links to webpages be removed if the information contained there can now be considered inaccurate, irrelevant or excessive. The potential difficulties this poses for researchers are illustrated by my experience collecting data for a corpus of neologisms appearing in online versions of UK national newspapers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	95–102
Journal	Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Volume	198
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.424
Publication status	Published - 24 Jul 2015

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corpus linguistics
corpora
neologism
Google
newspaper
Right to be Forgotten

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In Search of Oblivion? How the 'Right to be Forgotten' Could Undermine Web-based Corpora

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