Sketch Engine myTenTen21– Burmese corpus from the web

myTenTen21: Burmese corpus from the web

The Burmese Web Corpus (myTenTen21) is a corpus made up of texts collected from the Internet by SpiderLing in January and February 2021. The corpus belongs to the TenTen corpus family that is a set of web corpora built using the same method with a target size 10+ billion words. Sketch Engine currently provides access to TenTen corpora in more than 40 languages.

For detailed information about TenTen corpora, see Common TenTen corpora attributes.

Part-of-speech tagset

The myTenTen21 corpus was tagged by RFTagger trained on myPOS corpus and uses the following tagset.

Tools to work with the Burmese corpus

A complete set of tools is available to work with this Burmese Web corpus (myTenTen21) to generate:

keywords – terminology extraction of one-word units
word lists – lists of Burmese nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. organized by frequency
n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
concordance – examples in context
keywords– terminology extraction of one-word units
text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus

Further information about texts in the corpus

Counts

Tokens	716 million
Words	557 million
Sentences	23 million
Web pages	895 thousand

Distribution of websites the corpus has been made from

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).