A Corpus Factory for Many Languages

For many languages there are no large, general-language corpora available. Until the web, all but the richest institutions could do little but shake their heads in dismay as corpus-building was long, slow and expensive. But with the advent of the Web it can be highly automated and thereby fast and inexpensive. We have developed a `corpus factory' where we build large corpora. In this paper we describe the method we use, and how it has worked, and how various problems were solved, for eight languages: Dutch, Hindi, Indonesian, Norwegian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai and Vietnamese. The corpora we have developed are available for use in the Sketch Engine corpus query tool.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Adam Kilgarriff, Siva Reddy, Jan Pomikálek, P. V. S. Avinesh
• Keywords: Education, General-language Corpora, Large Corpora, LREC 2010, Richest Institutions