I'm looking for medium sized archives (10-100 users, hundreds of posts each) of IRC rooms, specifically relating to programming or a technical subject. Importantly, they have to be relatively recent (<5 years old). I've had a look around, but Google turns little up and its surprisingly difficult to find keywords that don't return irrelevant results. Does anyone know of any?

asked Oct 10 '11 at 01:30

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(Oct 10 '11 at 03:04) y2p

Thanks, but not quite what I'm looking for. Chat-80 is a bit old (its important that the data is up to date), while NPS is not of a technical nature. I can do some preliminary training on NPS, but the final model has to be built on more technical natured posts.

(Oct 10 '11 at 17:26) Robert Layton
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Again this may not qualify as chat log but you can definitely find conversations in this (16 million tweets) http://trec.nist.gov/data/tweets/

(Oct 10 '11 at 21:46) y2p

Thanks. I'm looking at tweets as well (its a comparison of short use of languages), but need IRC as well.

(Oct 10 '11 at 23:01) Robert Layton

What's the format of the tweet dataset from NIST? Does it include time of day? thanks for the info.

(Oct 11 '11 at 13:20) Melipone Moody

Don't know. I don't have the data. I did not go through the process of signing the agreement. But if it is in the default JSON format it should have the time

(Oct 11 '11 at 14:19) y2p
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This is kinda of pushing it in terms of "recent" (data is from 2007), but how does chat logs of IRC data from #linux on freenode sound?

Data set source: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~melsner/ (navigate down to the line titled "IRC Chat Data and Disentanglement Model")

Data set description: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~melsner/chat-manual.html

answered Oct 12 '11 at 18:17

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This is very useful, thanks.

(Oct 12 '11 at 18:49) Robert Layton

I found a great resource: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/

Has the ubuntu IRC logs, right up to current!

answered Oct 27 '11 at 23:50

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Robert Layton
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I'm unsure who to give credit to for this. icehuu, from efnet #math linked me to this:

#math logs from EFnet

answered Oct 13 '11 at 03:11

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That is a great resource as well!

(Oct 13 '11 at 18:08) Robert Layton
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