Collecting and Analysing Chats and Tweets in SoNaR

Eric Sanders


Abstract
In this paper a collection of chats and tweets from the Netherlands and Flanders is described. The chats and tweets are part of the freely available SoNaR corpus, a 500 million word text corpus of the Dutch language. Recruitment, metadata, anonymisation and IPR issues are discussed. To illustrate the difference of language use between the various text types and other parameters (like gender and age) simple text analysis in the form of unigram frequency lists is carried out. Furthermore a website is presented with which users can retrieve their own frequency lists.
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L12-1215
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
Year:
2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2253–2256
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/416_Paper.pdf
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Eric Sanders. 2012. Collecting and Analysing Chats and Tweets in SoNaR. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 2253–2256, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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