Greek Web as Corpus
- http://beta.sketchengine.co.uk/auth/corpora/run.cgi/first_form?corpname=preloaded/gkwac
Description
GkWaC is a 100 million word collection of POS-tagged texts downloaded from the Internet, prepared by Milos Husak of Masaryk University, Brno, for Lexical Computing Ltd., in collaboration with the Greek publishers Patakis and the Greek software company Neurolingo.
POS-tagging
The tokenization and Part-Of-Speech tagging uses the NeuroLingo? Collection Analyzer, which provides the following information:
word lemma tag morph
NeuroLingo? Collection Analyzer
http://www.neurolingo.gr/
Sketch Grammar
The sketch grammar, used for the generation of Greek word sketches and distributional thesaurus, was developed by Mavina Pantazara and Christos Tsalidis of Neurolingo.
Structure
The corpus is divided into documents (<doc></doc>) identified by their id and containg also information about its url, genre, year and epoch of publishing. Each document is further structured using following tags:
paragraphs <p></p> sentences <s></s> headers <h></h> lists <ul></ul> list lines <li></li> non-greek words <non-greek></non-greek> glue <g/>
Text gathering
The texts were downloaded using BootCat? according to an URL list generated by a list of Greek words provided by Patakis.
documents : 96861 max doc per server : 250 date : October 2007
BootCat?, WebBootCat?
http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/publications/euralex2006_pomikale_rychly/WebBootCaT.pdf
