esTenTen – Spanish corpus from the web

Search the Spanish esTenTen corpus

The Spanish Web corpus (esTenTen) is a text corpus created from the collected internet texts. The corpus belongs to the TenTen corpus family which is a set of the same processed web corpora with the target size 10+ billion words. Sketch Engine currently provides access to Tenten corpora in more than 30 languages.

The corpus consists of two subcorpora: European Spanish and American Spanish downloaded from web domains in the respective continents. From these subcorpora will also be prepared two separate corpora:

• European Spanish Web (eseuTenTen)
• American Spanish Web corpus (esamTenTen)

Thanks to this approach, users can effectively determine the language variety. This enables to select a specific subcorpus (or corpus) and limits a search to a single Spanish variety.

The data was cleaned (re-encoded to UTF-8, boilerplate removal applied, de-duplicated) and tokenised using Corpus tools. Detailed information about TenTen corpora is on the separate page Common TenTen corpora attributes.

Part-of-speech tagset

Part-of-speech tagging and lemmatisation were performed using FreeLing version 3.1 with Spanish configuration & data applying Spanish FreeLing tagset.

Distribution of corpus data

See graphs and more information about texts in the Spanish Web corpus 2011.

Tools to work with the Spanish corpora

A complete set of tools is available to work with these Spanish corpora from the Web to generate:

• word sketch – Spanish collocations categorized by grammatical relations
• thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
• word lists – lists of Spanish nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
• n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
• concordance – examples in context