In:International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 25:3 (2020) ► pp.347–359
Short Paper
Tracking and analyzing recent developments in German-language online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis
cOWIDplus Analysis and cOWIDplus Viewer
Published online: 14 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20078.wol
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20078.wol
Abstract
The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest crisis the world has had to face since World War II. It does not come
as a surprise that it is also having an impact on language as our primary communication tool. In this short paper, we present
three inter-connected resources that are designed to capture and illustrate these effects on a subset of the German language: An
RSS corpus of German-language newsfeeds (with freely available untruncated frequency lists), a continuously updated HTML page
tracking the diversity of the vocabulary in the RSS corpus and a Shiny web application that enables other researchers and the
broader public to explore the corpus in terms of basic frequencies.
Article outline
- 1.The coronavirus pandemic and its influence on language
- 2.The RSS corpus
- 2.1Corpus preparation
- 2.2Corpus size
- 3.cOWIDplus Analysis
- 4.cOWIDplus Viewer
- 4.1Architecture and interface
- 4.2Examples
- 5.Conclusions
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