Corpus repositories

The corpus is divided in a free part, where texts that we can redistribute are gathered (essentially, texts in the public domain), and a bound part, where we gather texts that we can’t redistribute.

For each language, there are two corpora: One with open content and one with closed (closed due to copyright reasons). Both corpora are in two, directories, one for original files (.docx, .pdf, .html, …) and one for converted text files. Search for the corpora under Repositories in github.com/giellalt/. In the repository search field, write

corpus-xxx

where xxx is the ISO code of your language

The directory structure

Inside each of the corpus directories (both corpus-xxx and corpus-xxx-orig) the structure outlined below is used.

admin/
    depts/
    guovda/
    karas/
    others/
    sd/
bible/
    ot/
    nt/
facta/
ficti/
laws/
news/
    Assu
    MinAigi
    NRK
    YLE
    other
science/

These 7 overarching genres should be understood as follows:

• admin/ :
  Texts from administrative bodies
• bible/ :
  The bible and other religious texts.
• facta/ :
  Factual texts, e.g. teaching books, descriptive texts. Sakprosa.
• ficti/ :
  Prose, lyrics, plays and other fiction, political text. Skjønnlitteratur.
• laws/ :
  Laws and similar juridical texts.
• news/ :
  Newspaper text
• science/:
  Scientific articles

Goldstandard corpus files

Some parts of our corpus are used as test data for different purposes, presently mainly for proofing tools. These files have additional markup to add info about linguistic errors of different types and their corrections. These files are located within a directory named goldstandard, which has the same internal structure as shown above:

orig/                 ## same orig/ as above
goldstandard/
    orig/
        sma/
        sme/
        smj/

It is essentially that goldstandard files do NOT enter the regular corpus, as that will destroy any reliability on reported coverage test results (by way of lexicalising missing words). So make sure you decide whether a document is to be used as a regular or goldstandard document before you add it to the repository, and make sure it is added in only one location. A goldstandard document can always be demoted to a regular corpus document, but the other way around is not possible.

Adding content

To add all files found in a directory to a working copy of a corpus, you can use the add_files_to_corpus program.