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====== Corpus ukWaC ======

**ukWaC** is a 2 billion word corpus constructed from the Web limiting the crawl to the **.uk** domain and using medium-frequency words from the [[http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/|BNC]] as seeds. The corpus was POS-tagged and lemmatized with the [[http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/corplex/TreeTagger/|TreeTagger]]. The tagset is available [[http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=tagsets:ukwac_tagset.txt|here]], more information can be found in this [[http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=papers:wacky_2008.pdf|paper]].((Copied from: http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/doku.php?id=corpora#english.))


===== Citing ukWaC =====

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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:itwac|itWaC]]
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