(version 2)
The corpus was prepared using the Corpus factory method. Full details are described in Kilgarriff et al. at LREC 2010.
The data was provided by Thapelo Otlogetswe.
SetswanaWaC – Setswana/Tswana corpus from the domain
The Setswana/Tswana corpus (SetswanaWaC) is a Setswana 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).
This Setswana corpus was tagged with shallow tagging which is based on regular expressions and frequency properties of tokens.
Tools to work with the Setswana/Tswana corpus
A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available for working with this Setswana/Tswana corpus and generating:
- word sketch – Setswana 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 Setswana nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
- n-grams – frequency lists of multi-word units
- concordance – examples in context
- text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus
Changelog
Setswana WaC (2013)
- version 2 has almost 11,5 million words
Bibliography
BARONI, Marco, et al. The WaCky wide web: a collection of very large linguistically processed web-crawled corpora. Language resources and evaluation, 2009, 43.3: 209-226.
Corpus factory method
Adam Kilgarriff, Siva Reddy, Jan Pomikálek, and Avinesh PVS. A corpus factory for many languages. In LREC workshop on Web Services and Processing Pipelines, Malta, May 2010.
Search the Setswana/Tswana corpus
Sketch Engine offers a range of tools to work with this Setswana corpus.
Use Sketch Engine in minutes
Generating collocations, frequency lists, examples in contexts, n-grams or extracting terms is easy with Sketch Engine. Use our Quick Start Guide to learn it in minutes.
