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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 25:3 (2020) ► pp.347–359
Short Paper

Tracking and analyzing recent developments in German-language online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis

cOWIDplus Analysis and cOWIDplus Viewer

| Leibniz Institute for the German Language
| Leibniz Institute for the German Language
| Leibniz Institute for the German Language
| Leibniz Institute for the German Language

The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest crisis the world has had to face since World War II. It does not come as a surprise that it is also having an impact on language as our primary communication tool. In this short paper, we present three inter-connected resources that are designed to capture and illustrate these effects on a subset of the German language: An RSS corpus of German-language newsfeeds (with freely available untruncated frequency lists), a continuously updated HTML page tracking the diversity of the vocabulary in the RSS corpus and a Shiny web application that enables other researchers and the broader public to explore the corpus in terms of basic frequencies.

Keywords: RSS newsfeed corpus, data visualization, linguistic diversity, vocabulary, coronavirus
Article outline
  • 1.The coronavirus pandemic and its influence on language
  • 2.The RSS corpus
    • 2.1Corpus preparation
    • 2.2Corpus size
  • 3. cOWIDplus Analysis
  • 4. cOWIDplus Viewer
    • 4.1Architecture and interface
    • 4.2Examples
  • 5.Conclusions
  • References
Published online: 14 October 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20078.wol
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