swWaC: Swahili corpus from the web
The Swahili web corpus (swWaC) is a Swahili 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 was crawled by the SpiderLing web spider in 2014. The Swahili corpus consists of 17 million words.
Part-of-speech tagset
The swWaC corpus was tagged by the TreeTagger with the Swahili parameter file using the SWATWOL tagset.
Tools to work with the Swahili corpus
A complete set of Sketch Engine tools is available to work with this Swahili corpus from the web to generate:
- word sketch – Swahili collocations categorized by grammatical relations
- thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
- keywords – terminology extraction of one-word units
- word lists – lists of Swahili 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
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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