@article{WolferKoplenigMichaelisetal.2020, author = {Sascha Wolfer and Alexander Koplenig and Frank Michaelis and Carolin M{\"u}ller-Spitzer}, title = {Tracking and analyzing recent developments in German-language online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis: cOWIDplus Analysis and cOWIDplus Viewer}, series = {International Journal of Corpus Linguistics}, volume = {25}, number = {3}, publisher = {Benjamins}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1569-9811}, doi = {10.1075/ijcl.20078.wol}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-101209}, pages = {347 -- 359}, year = {2020}, 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.}, language = {en} }