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Analyzing the unrestricted web: The finnish corpus of online registers
Authors: Skantsi Valtteri, Laippala Veronika
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Publication year: 2023
Journal: Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Journal name in source: NORDIC JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS
Journal acronym: NORD J LINGUIST
Article number: PII S0332586523000021
Number of pages: 31
ISSN: 0332-5865
eISSN: 1502-4717
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586523000021
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586523000021
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/179300015
This article introduces the Finnish Corpus of Online Registers (FinCORE) representing the full range of registers - situationally defined text varieties such as news and blogs - on the Finnish Internet. The extreme range of language use found online has challenged the study of registers. It has been unclear what registers the entire Internet includes, and if they can be sufficiently defined to allow for their analysis or classification, previous studies focusing on restricted sets of registers and English. FinCORE features 10,754 texts from the unrestricted web, manually annotated for their register using a scheme originally established for the Corpus of Online Registers of English (CORE). We present the FinCORE registers and compare them to CORE. Finally, we show that the FinCORE registers are sufficiently well-defined to allow for their automatic identification, thus opening novel possibilities for both linguistics and web-as-corpus research. FinCORE is published under an open license.
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