Risamálheild: A very large icelandic text corpus

Steinþór Steingrímsson; Sigrún Helgadóttir; Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson; Starkaður Barkarson; Jón Guðnason

Risamálheild: A very large icelandic text corpus

Steinþór Steingrímsson, Sigrún Helgadóttir, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Starkaður Barkarson, Jón Guðnason

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Abstract

We present Risamálheild, the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus (IGC), a corpus containing more than one billion running words from mostly contemporary texts. The work was carried out with minimal amount of work and resources, focusing on material that is not protected by copyright and sources which could provide us with large chunks of text for each cleared permission. The two main sources considered were therefore official texts and texts from news media. Only digitally available texts are included in the corpus and formats that can be problematic are not processed. The corpus texts are morphosyntactically tagged and provided with metadata. Processes have been set up for continuous text collection, cleaning and annotation. The corpus is available for search and download with permissive licenses. The dataset is intended to be clearly versioned with the first version released in early 2018. Texts will be collected continually and a new version published every year.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Editors	Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Stelios Piperidis, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Koiti Hasida, Helene Mazo, Khalid Choukri, Sara Goggi, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Nicoletta Calzolari, Jan Odijk, Takenobu Tokunaga
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	4361-4366
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9791095546009
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018 - Miyazaki, Japan Duration: 7 May 2018 → 12 May 2018

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Name	LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

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Conference	11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Miyazaki
Period	7/05/18 → 12/05/18

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Icelandic
Text corpora

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Steingrímsson, S., Helgadóttir, S., Rögnvaldsson, E., Barkarson, S., & Guðnason, J. (2018). Risamálheild: A very large icelandic text corpus. In H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, S. Piperidis, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, K. Hasida, H. Mazo, K. Choukri, S. Goggi, J. Mariani, A. Moreno, N. Calzolari, J. Odijk, & T. Tokunaga (Eds.), LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp. 4361-4366). (LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://aclanthology.org/L18-1690/

Steingrímsson, Steinþór ; Helgadóttir, Sigrún ; Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur et al. / Risamálheild : A very large icelandic text corpus. LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. editor / Hitoshi Isahara ; Bente Maegaard ; Stelios Piperidis ; Christopher Cieri ; Thierry Declerck ; Koiti Hasida ; Helene Mazo ; Khalid Choukri ; Sara Goggi ; Joseph Mariani ; Asuncion Moreno ; Nicoletta Calzolari ; Jan Odijk ; Takenobu Tokunaga. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2018. pp. 4361-4366 (LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation).

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Steingrímsson, S, Helgadóttir, S, Rögnvaldsson, E , Barkarson, S & Guðnason, J 2018, Risamálheild: A very large icelandic text corpus. in H Isahara, B Maegaard, S Piperidis, C Cieri, T Declerck, K Hasida, H Mazo, K Choukri, S Goggi, J Mariani, A Moreno, N Calzolari, J Odijk & T Tokunaga (eds), LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 4361-4366, 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 7/05/18. <https://aclanthology.org/L18-1690/>

Risamálheild: A very large icelandic text corpus. / Steingrímsson, Steinþór; Helgadóttir, Sigrún; Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur et al.
LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. ed. / Hitoshi Isahara; Bente Maegaard; Stelios Piperidis; Christopher Cieri; Thierry Declerck; Koiti Hasida; Helene Mazo; Khalid Choukri; Sara Goggi; Joseph Mariani; Asuncion Moreno; Nicoletta Calzolari; Jan Odijk; Takenobu Tokunaga. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2018. p. 4361-4366 (LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation).

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Steingrímsson S, Helgadóttir S, Rögnvaldsson E , Barkarson S , Guðnason J. Risamálheild: A very large icelandic text corpus. In Isahara H, Maegaard B, Piperidis S, Cieri C, Declerck T, Hasida K, Mazo H, Choukri K, Goggi S, Mariani J, Moreno A, Calzolari N, Odijk J, Tokunaga T, editors, LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 2018. p. 4361-4366. (LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation).

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