Comparable Corpora Within and Across Languages, Word Frequency Lists and the KELLY Project
Adam Kilgarriff · 2010
Word frequency lists play a pivotal role as we explore and exploit comparable corpora. They form a compact summary of what is in a corpus. They also make it possible to assess how similar two corpora are, and how they contrast with each other. They are also widely used by educators, psychologists and publishers in their own right. In the recently-started EU project KELLY, we are exploring these issues across nine languages, including starting from loosely comparable corpora across languages. The paper describes how word frequency lists can be developed from corpora, and how they might be used, complete with plans and experiences from Kelly.