CONTRAST-IT

CONTRAST-IT is a medium-size multilingual corpus created on the basis of a comparable collection of articles published electronically in online daily newspapers. The CONTRAST-IT corpus is based on a text collection totalling ca. 1.5 million words. The articles are written in five languages: Italian (from Italy: IT), French (from France: FR), Spanish (from Spain: SP), English (from the UK: E), and German (from Germany: G). Each corpus is comparable in size. The size of each language subcorpus is approximately 300,000 words.

Project leader: Anna-Maria De Cesare (University of Basel)
Size: 1.5 million words
Language: Italian, French, Spanish, English, German
Period: 2011–2015
Released: 2018
Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation
Project home page: https://contrast-it.philhist.unibas.ch/en/home/
Corpus access: http://philhist-contrast-it-noske.philhist.unibas.ch/cnt/run.cgi/first_form

Reference line and copyright

The corpora and documentation are licensed under the *Creative Commons license: Attribution + Noncommercial:

Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for noncommercial purposes.
Licensees may copy, distribute, display and publish the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits as follows:
Anna-Maria De Cesare (2011–2018). CONTRAST-IT. University of Basel, https://contrast-it.philhist.unibas.ch/en/home/

Availability

Open access. Available online at http://philhist-contrast-it-noske.philhist.unibas.ch/cnt/run.cgi/first_form

Technical information

Part-of-speech tagged.

CoRD Entry submitted on December 16, 2018 by Anna-Maria De Cesare.