hebWaC: Hebrew web corpus
The Hebrew web corpus (hebWaC) is a Hebrew corpus made up of texts collected from the Internet. This Hebrew corpus is a domain-independent web corpus consists of newspapers pages, blog posts, commercial websites, etc. A final size of the corpus is 47 million words.
The corpus was prepared according to standards described in the document A Corpus Factory for Many Languages (Kilgarriff et al. at LREC 2010).
Part-of-speech tagset
The heWaC corpus was tagged and uses the following Hebrew POS tagset summary.
Tools to work with the Hebrew corpus
A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available to work with this Hebrew corpus to generate:
- word sketch – Hebrew collocations categorized by grammatical relations
- thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
- word lists – lists of Hebrew 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
2017
- computed word sketches
July 2013
- initial version without word sketches
Bibliography
Corpus factory method
Kilgarriff, A., Reddy, S., Pomikálek, J., & Avinesh, P. V. S. (2010, May). A corpus factory for many languages. In LREC.
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