viTenTen: Corpus of the Vietnamese Web

The Vietnamese Web Corpus (viTenTen) is a Vietnamese corpus made up of texts collected from the Internet. The corpus belongs to the TenTen corpus family which is a set of web corpora built using the same method with a target size 10+ billion words. Sketch Engine currently provides access to TenTen corpora in more than 30 languages.

For detailed information about TenTen corpora, see  Common TenTen corpora attributes.

Part-of-speech tagset

This Vietnamese corpus was part-of-speech tagged using the following tagset: https://www.sketchengine.eu/vietnamese-tagset/

Overview of Vietnamese TenTen corpora

This is a list of Vietnamese Web corpora available in Sketch Engine:

  • Vietnamese Web corpus 2017 (viTenTen17) – 6 billion words – POS tagging

Basic frequency statistics of the Vietnamese Web 2017 corpus

Tokens 7,206,666,511
Words 6,056,899,600
Sentences 138,471,069
Web pages 24,794,365

Genre annotation and topic classification

A part of the Vietnamese Web 2017 corpus contains genre annotation and topic classification. These can be displayed as corpus structures in Concordance or in the Text type Analysis tool. Genres refer to writing styles and are divided into four groups (blog, discussion, fiction, legal, news, reference/encyclopedia) whereas topic classification is inspired by categories used by https://curlie.org/ (formerly dmoz.org).

  • genres cover 14.6% of the corpus, i.e. 1 billion tokens
  • topic classification covers 2.8% of the corpus, i.e. 200 million tokens

Please refer to our article on topic and genre classification for more information: https://www.sketchengine.eu/blog/topics-and-genres-in-corpora/

Hover over the chart to display a number of tokens of the particular topic.


Tools to work with the Vietnamese corpus

A complete set of tools is available to work with this Vietnamese corpus to generate:

  • word sketch – Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. organized by frequency
  • n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
  • concordance – examples in context
  • text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus

Vietnamese Web 2017 (August 2024)

  • POS tagging
  • Word Sketch grammar for collocations, Term grammar for terminology extraction
  • topic and genre classification
  • spam and bad content removal

Vietnamese Web 2017 (November 2018)

  • crawled by SpiderLing in November and December 2017 and in January 2018
  • not tagged yet

TenTen corpora

Jakubíček, M., Kilgarriff, A., Kovář, V., Rychlý, P., & Suchomel, V. (2013, July). The TenTen corpus family. In 7th International Corpus Linguistics Conference CL (pp. 125-127).

Suchomel, V., & Pomikálek, J. (2012). Efficient web crawling for large text corpora. In Proceedings of the seventh Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC7) (pp. 39-43).

Genre annotation

SUCHOMEL, Vít. Genre Annotation of Web Corpora: Scheme and Issues. In Kohei Arai, Supriya Kapoor, Rahul Bhatia. Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2020, Volume 1. Vancouver, Canada: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021. s. 738-754. ISBN 978-3-030-63127-7. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63128-4_55.

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