svTenTen: Corpus of the Swedish Web
The Swedish Web Corpus (svTenTen) is a Swedish corpus made up of texts collected from the Internet. The corpus belongs to the TenTen corpus family which is a set of the 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.
Data was crawled by the SpiderLing web spider from August to November 2020 and comprised of almost 2.3 million words. The sample texts of the largest web domains which account for 49% of all corpus texts were checked semi-automatically and content with poor quality text and spam was removed.
Detailed information about TenTen corpora is on the separate page Common TenTen corpora attributes.
Part-of-speech tagset
The svTenTen corpus was POS annotated lemmatised using Hunpos, see the tagset documentation.
Overview of Swedish TenTen corpora
This is a list of Swedish Web corpora available in Sketch Engine:
- Swedish Web corpus 2020 (svTenTen20) – 2.3 billion word
- Swedish Web corpus 2014 (svTenTen14) – 3.4 billion word
Basic frequency statistics of the Swedish Web 2020 corpus
| Tokens | 2.7+ billion |
| Words | 2.3+ billion |
| Sentences | 160+ thousand |
| Web pages | 7+ million |
Genre annotation and topic classification
A part of the Swedish Web 2020 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 several 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 7% of the corpus, i.e. 200 million tokens
- topic classification covers 7% 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 Swedish Web corpus
A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available to work with this Swedish corpus to generate:
- word sketch – Swedish 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 Swedish 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
Changelog
svTenTen20 – version 1 (2024-12-12)
- data downloaded from August do November 2020
- partial topic and genre classification
- spam removal
svTenTen14 – version 1 (2014-06-09)
- svTenTen14 – 3.9 billion tokens
- crawled by SpiderLing in February 2014
Bibliography
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).
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