Corpus of British newspaper articles on Islam
This corpus is an English corpus made up of texts collected from British newspaper articles which are dedicated to the topic of Islam. The corpus was prepared by Dr Costas Gabrielatos in 2010. It consists of 140 million words. The corpus texts may serve for the analysis of differences in approach to the topic of Islam and Muslims in articles from tabloids and broadsheets.
Part-of-speech tagset
This English corpus of British news articles on Islam was tagged by Penn TreeBank tagset.
Access
For gaining access to this corpus, please contact Dr Costas Gabrielatos at gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk from Edge Hill University (previously at Lancaster University).
Corpus in detail
The chart shows the distribution of the parts of speech in the corpus of British news articles referring to Islam.
Further information about texts in the corpus
Basic information
| Frequency | |
| Tokens | 170,397,870 |
| Words | 140,922,329 |
| Sentences | 6,637,826 |
| Web pages | 1,568 |
Distribution of publication years of articles
Tools to work with the English corpora
A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available to work with this English corpus a to generate:
- word sketch – English collocations categorized by grammatical relations
- thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
- word lists – lists of English nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
- n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
- concordance – examples in context
Bibliography
Baker, P. (2010) Representations of Islam in British broadsheet and tabloid newspapers 1999-2005. In Language and Politics, 9(2), pp. 310–338.
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