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Tracking and analyzing recent developments in German-language online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis
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- Source: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Volume 25, Issue 3, Oct 2020, p. 347 - 359
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- 14 Oct 2020
Abstract
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.
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