itWaC: Italian corpus from the .it domain
The Italian web corpus (itWaC) is an Italian corpus made up of texts collected from the Internet. The corpus consists of 1.5 billion words and was prepared by Marco Baroni. Texts are part-of-speech tagged and lemmatized with the TreeTagger tool. Moreover, users can explore the grammatical and collocational behavior of Italian words as a result of a word sketch grammar prepared Marco Baroni and later updated by Valentina Efrati and Francesca Masini (TRIPLE lab, Roma Tre University). The corpus is cleaned and deduplicated.
Part-of-speech tagset
See the Italian part-of-speech tagset describing POS tags used in the corpus.
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Sketch Engine offers a range of tools to work with this Italian corpus.
A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available to work with this Italian itWaC corpus to generate:
- word sketch – Italian collocations categorized by grammatical relations
- thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
- word lists – lists of Italian 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
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.
BARONI, Marco; KILGARRIFF, Adam. Large linguistically-processed web corpora for multiple languages. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Posters & Demonstrations. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006, pp. 87–90.
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