daTenTen: Corpus of the Danish Web
The Danish Web Corpus (daTenTen) is a Danish corpus made up of texts collected from the Internet. The corpus belongs to the TenTen corpus family which is a set of the web corpora built using the same method with a target size 10+ billion words. Sketch Engine currently provides access to TenTen corpora in more than 30 languages.
The corpus data was crawled by web spider SpiderLing in December 2017. It is comprised of more than 2 billion words.
The corpus possesses common TenTen corpora attributes.
Part-of-speech tagset
The texts are tagged by TreeTagger with a Danish model respecting ePos tagset trained using the ePAROLE corpus.
The 2014 version of this corpus was tagged by CST’s TaggerXML following its tagset.
daTenTen corpus in detail
The chart shows the distribution of the parts of speech in the Danish Web corpus 2017.
Further information about texts in the corpus
Basic information
| Frequency* | |
| Tokens | 2 571 |
| Words | 2 171 |
| Sentences | 130 |
| Web pages | 5.8 |
* the figures above are rounded to million
Distribution of top-level domains
Available tools
A complete set of tools is available to work with this Danish corpus to generate:
- word sketch – Danish collocations categorized by grammatical relations
- thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
- word lists – lists of Danish nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
- n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
- concordance – examples in context
Changelog
daTenTen17 (December 2017)
- crawled new data – 2.1 billion words in total
- Norwegian (Bokmal or Nynorsk), Swedish, English and German paragraphs were filtered out
version 5 (October 2017)
- new lemmatizing and tagging with ePos tagger
version 4 (April 2015)
- Tagging of word “Big” corrected to tag “EGEN”
version 3 (March 2015)
- POS tags with slashes corrected, unwanted HTML tags filtered out
version 2 (4 September 2014)
- Norwegian filtered out
version 1 (1 July 2014)
- lempos added
- better cleaning of messy data and tagger mistakes
version 0 (12 March 2014)
- daTenTen14 – 2.4 billion tokens
- crawled by SpiderLing in Jan 2014
Bibliography
TenTen corpora
Jakubíček, M., Kilgarriff, A., Kovář, V., Rychlý, P., & Suchomel, V. (2013, July). The TenTen corpus family. In 7th International Corpus Linguistics Conference CL (pp. 125-127).
Suchomel, V., & Pomikálek, J. (2012). Efficient web crawling for large text corpora. In Proceedings of the seventh Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC7) (pp. 39-43)
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