dkWaC – Danish corpus from the Internet in 2010
The Danish web corpus (dkWaC) is a Danish corpus made up of texts collected from the Internet. The corpus was prepared according to standards described in the document A Corpus Factory for Many Languages (Kilgarriff et al. at LREC 2010).
Data was crawled by the SpiderLing web spider in 2010 and comprises more than 288 million words.
Part-of-speech tagset
The corpus is not tagged.
Tools to work with the Danish corpus
A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available to work with this Danish corpus from the web to generate:
- keywords – terminology extraction of one-word units
- word lists – lists of Danish words organized by frequency
- n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
- concordance – examples in context
- text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus
Bibliography
BARONI, Marco, et al. The WaCky wide web: a collection of very large linguistically processed web-crawled corpora. Language resources and evaluation, 2009, 43.3: 209-226.
Corpus factory method
Adam Kilgarriff, Siva Reddy, Jan Pomikálek, and Avinesh PVS. A corpus factory for many languages. In LREC workshop on Web Services and Processing Pipelines, Malta, May 2010.
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