Comparable corpus of English and Russian news texts

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title
  • Comparable corpus of English and Russian news texts
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
  • developer University of Leeds
subject
  • Comparable corpus of English and Russian news texts
subject.linguisticField
  • text_and_corpus_linguistics
subject.monoMultilingual
  • multilingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • The English corpus is based on a subset of the corpus of Reuters news, a collection of newswires from Reuters for one year from 1996-08-20 to 1997-08-19. The Russian corpus is based on articles from Izvestia, a national broadsheet newspaper, and covers the period from 2000 to 2001.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • free
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
  • University of Leeds
contributor
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
  • standard_dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
  • professional
contributor.attribute.author.age
  • adult
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
date.modified
type
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies
type.style
  • written
type.form
  • unfixed
type.sentence
  • short
  • long
type.annotation
  • annotated English: POS tagged and lemmatised using Helmut Schmidt's TreeTagger
  • annotated Russian: The POS tagging and lemmatisation of the corpus has been done using mystem.
type.annotationSample
type.sample
  • id="CRB" title="The Economist. Sample containing about 72601 words from a periodical (domain: commerce) " date="1993-19-19" type="W pop lore"
    many Greeks who in his judgment avoided their public responsibilities: a " useless " lot, he called them. It notes that the Byzantine Greeks were also a brilliant but undisciplined people, held together only by some pretty unscrupulous methods of government. Indeed, it is hard to explain some of the oddities even of modern Greece by the history of the past 500 years. There is that persistent reluctance of Greeks to build factories, or to work in them. Does the Turkish occupation, or anything that has happened since, explain why Greeks so much prefer to earn their living in the little, man-to-man operations of the service sector? There is also the recent failure of the government to reorganise the export of agricultural produce. In 1991 it offered handsome tax
format.extent
  • Corpus Size(in words), Reuters subset, 83,491,119/ Izvestia, 14,564,884
  • Russian Reference Corpus, 50,512,584
format.medium
  • Online
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
  • The interface will allow you to compare word uses between English and Russian as well as across two registers in Russian (in the language of newspapers vs. the language of fiction). Even though the size of the corpora varies, the first line of the output shows the relative frequency of your search term in the corpus you have selected (in terms of the number of occurrences of the term per million words).
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
  • English: Reuters newswire texts
  • Russian: Izvestia, a national broadsheet newspaper
language
  • Russian
  • English
language.area
  • Europe
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
  • The language of Russian newspapers can be compared against the first version of the Russian Reference Corpus
coverage.temporal
  • 1996-08-20 to 1997-08-19(Reuters )
  • 2000 to 2001(Izvestia)
coverage.spacial
rights
  • The use of the corpus is restricted for research purposes only.
  • registration