MalaysianWaC: Malaysian corpus from the web

The Malaysian web corpus (MalaysianWaC) is a Malaysian 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). The Malaysian language is a dialect of the Malay language used in Malaysia.

Data was crawled by the Heritrix web spider in 2010. This Malaysian corpus is comprised of 230 million words.

Part-of-speech tagset

The Malaysian corpus is PoS tagged using the Apertium tool with the following Malaysian tagset.

Tools to work with the Malaysian corpus

A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available to work with this Malay corpus (more specifically Malaysian) to generate:

  • word sketch – Malaysian collocations categorized by grammatical relations
  • thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
  • keywords – terminology extraction of one-word units
  • word lists – lists of Malaysian nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
  • n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
  • concordance – examples in context
  • text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus

version 1 (21st April 2017)

  • created word sketches
  • added attribute “sera”

initial version (5th April 2017)

  • size 17 million words

Corpus factory method

Kilgarriff, A., Reddy, S., Pomikálek, J., & Avinesh, P. V. S. (2010, May). A corpus factory for many languages. In LREC.

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