Building Web Corpora for Minority Languages

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Abstract

Web corpora creation for minority languages that do not have their own top-level Internet domain is no trivial matter. Web pages in such minority languages often contain text and links to pages in the dominant language of the country. When building corpora in specific languages, one has to decide how and at which stage to make sure the texts gathered are in the desired language. In the {``}Finno-Ugric Languages and the Internet{''} (Suki) project, we created web corpora for Uralic minority languages using web crawling combined with a language identification system in order to identify the language while crawling. In addition, we used language set identification and crowdsourcing before making sentence corpora out of the downloaded texts. In this article, we describe a strategy for collecting textual material from the Internet for minority languages. The strategy is based on the experiences we gained during the Suki project.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 12th Web as Corpus Workshop
EditorsAdrien Barbaresi, Felix Bildhauer, Roland Schäfer, Egon Stemle
Number of pages10
Place of PublicationStroudsburg
PublisherThe Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication date2020
Pages23-32
ISBN (Electronic)979-10-95546-68-9
Publication statusPublished - 2020
MoE publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
EventLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference - [LREC 2020 was cancelled]
Duration: 11 May 202016 May 2020
Conference number: 12
https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/

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