As a service to the scientific community, Reuters is making available large quantities of Reuters News stories for research into natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, etc. NIST now manage the distribution of the corpus, and prospective applicants should use the form at http://trec.nist.gov/data/reuters/reuters.html

The purpose of this Yahoo group is to provide a forum for the discussion of issues related to the composition and use of Reuters corpora. Messages concerning individual corpus requests should be sent to reuters-request@nist.gov (i.e. *NOT to this list*).