Background

The pages below provide background information on scientific approaches to web data collection and processing, corpus linguistics, digital humanities, and natural language processing.

• Compendium: Web texts in linguistics and humanities
  • Web corpora as scientific objects
  • Corpus types and resulting methods
  • Corpus construction steps
  • Methodological issues
  • References
• Finding sources for web corpora
  • From link lists to web corpora
  • Existing resources
  • Search engines
  • Selecting random documents from the Web
  • Social networks
  • Remarks
  • References
• Working with corpus data
  • Generic solutions in Python
  • Formats and software used in corpus linguistics
  • Generic NLP solutions