The Concept of the Tomsk Regional Corpus: Balance and Representativeness

The paper discusses two issues of the conception of the Tomsk Regional Corpus developed at Tomsk State University, to obtain a more exact balance and representativeness of the Corpus. These parameters of the Tomsk Regional Corpus are viewed in comparison with the Russian National Corpus (basic subcorpus), its dialectal subcorpus and the Saratov Dialectal Corpus.