Tracking and analyzing recent developments in German-language online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis: cOWIDplus Analysis and cOWIDplus Viewer
- 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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| Author: | Sascha WolferORCiDGND, Alexander KoplenigORCiDGND, Frank MichaelisGND, Carolin Müller-SpitzerORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-101209 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20078.wol |
| ISSN: | 1569-9811 |
| Parent Title (English): | International Journal of Corpus Linguistics |
| Publisher: | Benjamins |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/10/20 |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | RSS newsfeed corpus; coronavirus; data visualization; linguistic diversity; vocabulary |
| GND Keyword: | COVID-19; Deutsch; Lexikostatistik; Online-Medien; Vielfalt; Wortschatz |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| First Page: | 347 |
| Last Page: | 359 |
| Note: | Links zur Vorabversion: cOWIDplus Viewer und zur cOWIDplus Analyse auf OPUS |
| Note: | The publication is under copyright by Benjamins. The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form. |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Medienlinguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Quantitative Linguistik |
| Program areas: | L3: Lexik empirisch und digital |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |