kkWaC: Kazakh corpus from the web
The Kazakh Web Corpus (kkWaC) is a Kazakh 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 were downloaded in January 2012 with the total size 139 million words. Texts were cleaned and deduplicated. The Kazakh language belongs to the Turkic languages.
Tools to work with the Kazakh corpus
A complete set of tools is available to work with this Kazakh corpus to generate:
- word lists – lists of Kazakh words organized by frequency
- n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
- concordance – examples in context
Changelog
first version (January 2012)
- initial size 139 million words
Bibliography
Turkic Web corpora
Vít Baisa and Vít Suchomel (2012). Large Corpora for Turkic Languages and Unsupervised Morphological Analysis. In Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12), Turkey, May 2012, pp. 28–32.
Corpus factory method
Adam Kilgarriff, Siva Reddy, Jan Pomikálek, and Avinesh PVS. A corpus factory for many languages. In LREC workshop on Web Services and Processing Pipelines, Malta, May 2010.
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