The Vast and the Focused: On the need for domain-focused web corpora
Adrien Barbaresi · Publication Server of the Institute for German Language (Institute for German Language) · 2019
As the Web ought to be considered as a series of sources rather than as a source in itself, a problem facing corpus construction resides in meta-information and categorization. In addition, we need focused data to shed light on particular subfields of the digital public sphere. Blogs are relevant to that end, especially if the resulting web texts can be extracted along with metadata and made available in coherent and clearly describable collections.