German Trends: a daily-updated monitor corpus of news articles
The German Trends corpus is a German monitor corpus made up of news articles or other sources that are regularly updated from their RSS feeds (newsfeeds). The German trends corpus is updated daily with new texts and grows by about 2 million words each day. These regular updates enable you to use the diachronic analysis tool and study word usage changes.
Part-of-speech tagset
The German Trends corpus was tagged by RFTagger using this POS tagset.
Tools to work with the German Trends corpus
A complete set of tools is available to work with this German Trends corpus from news to generate:
- word sketch – German collocations categorized by grammatical relations
- thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
- keywords – terminology extraction of one-word and multi-word units
- word lists – lists of German nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. organized by frequency
- n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
- concordance – examples in context
- trends – diachronic analysis automatically identifies neologisms and changes in use
- text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus
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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