WaC text corpora

The Web as Corpus (WaC) corpora were prepared by the Corpus factory method. Full details are described in the paper below. List of corpora (in order by language):

A

Arabic (arWaC web corpus), Amharic (AmWaC web corpus)

B

Basque (euWaC), Bengali (bnWaC), Bosnian (bsWaC)

C

Cantonese (yueWaC), Chinese (ChineseTaiwanWaC), Croatian (hrWaC)

D

Danish (dkWaC), Dutch (Dutch web corpus)

E

English (pukWaC, ukWaC – British English corpus, ukWaCsst)

F

Filipino (filWaC), Frisian (fyWaC), French (frWaC)

G

Georgian (kaWaC), German (deWaC, Parsed deWaC (sdeWaC)), Greek (gkWaC), Gujarati (guWaC)

H

Hausa (haWaC ), Hebrew (hebWaC), Hindi (hindiWaC)

I

Igbo (igWaC), Indonesian (idWaC), Italian (itWaC)

J

Japanese (jpWaC)

K

Kannada (knWaC)

L

Latvian (lvWaC – Latvian web corpus), Lithuanian (ltWaC – Lithuanian web corpus)

M

Malaysian (zsmWaC – Malaysian web corpus), Malayalam (mlWaC web corpus), Maltese (mtWaC – Maltese Wac corpus), Maori (miWaC – Maori web corpus), Mongolian (mnWaC – Mongolian web corpus)

N

Nepali (neWaC – Nepali web corpus)

O

Oromo (orWaC – Oromo web corpus)

P

Polish (plWaC – Polish Web corpus)

R

Russian (ruWac – Russian Web Corpus)

S

Samoan (smWaC – Samoan web corpus), Serbian (srWaC – Serbian Web corpus), Setswana (tnWaC – Setswana web corpus), Slovenian (slWaC2.1) Somali (soWaC – Somali web corpus), Spanish (esWaC – Spanish web corpus), Swahili (swWaC), Swedish (svWaC)

T

Tamil (tamilWaC), Tatar (Tatar Sample), Telugu (teluguWaC), Thai (thaiWaC), Tigrinya (tiWaC), Turkish (trWaC – Turkish Web Corpus)

U

Urdu (urWaC web corpus)

V

Vietnamese (viWaC)

W

Welsh (welshWaC)

Y

Yoruba (yoWaC web corpus)

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Bibliography

Adam Kilgarriff, Siva Reddy, Jan Pomikálek and Avinesh PVS (2010). A corpus factory for many languages. In LREC workshop on Web Services and Processing Pipelines, Malta, May 2010.