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====== Corpus itWaC ======

**itWaC** is a 2 billion word corpus constructed from the Web limiting the crawl to the **.it** domain and using medium-frequency words from the [[http://sslmit.unibo.it/repubblica|Repubblica]] corpus and basic Italian vocabulary lists as seeds. The corpus was POS-tagged with the [[http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/corplex/TreeTagger/|TreeTagger]] using this [[http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/collocazioni/itwac.tagset.txt|tagset]], and lemmatized using the [[http://sslmit.unibo.it/morphit|Morph-it!]] lexicon, 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#italian.))


===== Citing itWaC =====

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M. Baroni, S. Bernardini, A. Ferraresi and E. Zanchetta. 2009. The WaCky Wide Web: A Collection of Very Large Linguistically Processed Web-Crawled Corpora. Language Resources and Evaluation 43(3): 209-226. ([[http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=papers:wacky_2008.pdf|PDF to download]])

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====== See also ======
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[[en:cnk:dewac|deWaC]] • [[en:cnk:frwac|frWaC]] • [[en:cnk:ukwac|ukWaC]]
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