yoWaC: Corpus of the Yoruba Web
The Yoruba Web corpus (YorubaWaC) is a Yoruba 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).
Data was crawled by the SpiderLing web spider and the WebBootCat tool in 2012 with a final size of 2.8 million words.
Tools to work with the Yoruba corpus
A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available to work with this Yoruba Web corpus to generate:
- word lists – lists of Yoruba 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
- text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus
Changelog
version 2 (17 January 2012)
- corpus tagged using a new POS tagger (77.63% accuracy), lemmatizer and morph analyser downloaded from http://sivareddy.in/downloads
Bibliography
Sketch Engine general reference
Adam Kilgarriff, Vít Baisa, Jan Bušta, Miloš Jakubíček, Vojtěch Kovář, Jan Michelfeit, Pavel Rychlý, Vít Suchomel. The Sketch Engine: ten years on. Lexicography, 1: 7-36, 2014.
WaC corpora
Adam Kilgarriff, Siva Reddy, Jan Pomikálek, Avinesh PVS. A Corpus Factory for Many Languages. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’10), 1: 904-910, 2010.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{kilgarriff2010corpus,
author = {Kilgarriff, Adam and Reddy, Siva and Pomik{\'a}lek, Jan and PVS, Avinesh},
title = {A Corpus Factory for Many Languages},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)},
volume = {1},
pages = {904--910},
year = {2010},
address = {Valletta, Malta},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
url = {https://www.sketchengine.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Corpus_Factory_2010.pdf}
}
Adam Kilgarriff, Marco Baroni. Large linguistically-processed web corpora for multiple languages. Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Posters & Demonstrations, 1: 87-90, 2006.
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