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 contains two subcorpora: European Spanish and American Spanish downloaded from web domains in the respective continents. Thanks to this approach, users can effectively determine the language variety. This enables to select a specific subcorpus 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.
Further information about texts in the corpus
Basic information
| Frequency* | |
| Tokens | 10 986 |
| Words | 9 497 |
| Sentences | 407 |
| Web pages | 20 |
* the figures above are rounded to million
EsTenTen – top-level domain distribution
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
Changelog
spring 2017
- re-tagged using Freeling 4 in Sketch Engine pipeline version 5
January 2016
- re-tagged using Freeling 4
11 February 2015
- re-tagged using Freeling 3.1
2 April 2014
- fixed encoding issues
29 July 2013
- re-tagged using Freeling 3.0
17 October 2012
- American and European parts from 2011 put together
- subcorpora can be used to query the parts separately now
12 January 2012
- American Spanish data crawled by web crawler SpiderLing in December 2011
- these documents were put into a separate corpus “esAmTenTen”
30 September 2011
- removed Catalan and Galician texts
- corpus size reduced by 79 million tokens
13 April 2011
- Initial version – 2.5 billion tokens.
- Crawled by web crawler Heritrix.
- Tagged by TreeTagger with UTF-8 Spanish parameter file applying Stuttgart Spanish tagset.
Bibliography
Kilgarriff, A., & Renau, I. (2013). esTenTen, a vast web corpus of Peninsular and American Spanish. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 95, 12-19.
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).
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