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====== Corpus frWaC ======

**frWaC** is a 1.6 billion word corpus constructed from the Web limiting the crawl to the **.fr** domain and using medium-frequency words from the Le Monde Diplomatique corpus and basic French vocabulary lists as seeds. The corpus was POS-tagged and lemmatized with the [[http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/corplex/TreeTagger/|TreeTagger]], more information available [[http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=papers:wacky_2008.pdf|here]].((Copied from: http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/doku.php?id=corpora#french.))


===== Citing frWaC =====

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A. Ferraresi, S. Bernardini, G. Picci and M. Baroni (2010) “Web Corpora for Bilingual Lexicography: A Pilot Study of English/French Collocation Extraction and Translation”. In Xiao, R. (ed.) Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ([[http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=ferraresi_et_al_2010.pdf|PDF to download]])
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====== See also ======
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[[en:cnk:dewac|deWaC]] • [[en:cnk:itwac|itWaC]] • [[en:cnk:ukwac|ukWaC]]
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