LINGUIST List 15.301

Tue Jan 27 2004

FYI: New Corpus of the German Language

Editor for this issue: Anne Clarke <annelinguistlist.org>

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1. Alexander Geyken, New Corpus of the German Language

 First Release

The DWDS corpus of the German language of the 20th century is now
available and can be searched online via the Dialing DWDS
Concordancer.

Ten years after the publication of the British National Corpus (BNC),
the DWDS project created a corpus of German texts inspired as to size
and balance by the BNC. The DWDS corpus contains a variety of texts
representing different text types from the whole of the 20th
century. The corpus that is accessible on-line consists of 102 million
words of running text.

Most 20th-century texts are protected by copyright. By agreement with
the publishers, the DWDS is permitted to make the majority of the
texts in its corpus accessible via the Internet. Research on these
texts is permitted free of charge for scientific purposes only and not
for commercial exploitation of any kind. Registration, with
acknowledgement of conditions of use, is a requirement.

For information about the contents and structure of DWDS corpus, see:

			http://www.dwdscorpus.de

DWDS (Digitales W�rterbuch der deutschen Sprache) denotes the proposed
new electronic dictionary of the German language. 

For information about the DWDS project, consult the DWDS homepage at
http://www.dwds.de 
For inquiries about the DWDS, contact dwdsdwds.de.