The American Local News Corpus

Ann Irvine, Joshua Langfus, Chris Callison-Burch


Abstract
We present the American Local News Corpus (ALNC), containing over 4 billion words of text from 2,652 online newspapers in the United States. Each article in the corpus is associated with a timestamp, state, and city. All 50 U.S. states and 1,924 cities are represented. We detail our method for taking daily snapshots of thousands of local and national newspapers and present two example corpus analyses. The first explores how different sports are talked about over time and geography. The second compares per capita murder rates with news coverage of murders across the 50 states. The ALNC is about the same size as the Gigaword corpus and is growing continuously. Version 1.0 is available for research use.
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L14-1698
Volume:
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
Month:
May
Year:
2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, 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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1305–1308
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/914_Paper.pdf
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Ann Irvine, Joshua Langfus, and Chris Callison-Burch. 2014. The American Local News Corpus. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 1305–1308, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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The American Local News Corpus (Irvine et al., LREC 2014)
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/914_Paper.pdf