@incollection{KupietzWittBańskietal.2017, author = {Marc Kupietz and Andreas Witt and Piotr Bański and Dan Tufiş and Dan Cristea and Tam{\´a}s V{\´a}radi}, title = {EuReCo - Joining Forces for a European Reference Corpus as a sustainable base for cross-linguistic research}, series = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora and Big Data and Natural Language Processing (CMLC-5+BigNLP) 2017 including the papers from the Web-as-Corpus (WAC-XI) guest section. Birmingham, 24 July 2017}, editor = {Piotr Bański and Marc Kupietz and Harald L{\"u}ngen and Paul Rayson and Hanno Biber and Evelyn Breiteneder and Simon Clematide and John Mariani and Mark Stevenson and Theresa Sick}, publisher = {Institut f{\"u}r Deutsche Sprache}, address = {Mannheim}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-62580}, pages = {15 -- 19}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In this paper we discuss the opportunities, prerequisites, possible applications and implications of a virtually joint corpus based on existing national, reference or other large corpora and their host institutions.}, language = {en} }