RFERL corpora

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Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty runs news services in a number of Central Asian languages. The information is essentially free for public use with attribution.

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We discovered how a corpus could be built from their website, and have instructions for writing a scraper in the framework we developed for it. Currently we have corpora for Kazakh and Kyrgyz, covering only a couple years' worth of articles.

Kyrgyz[edit]

2009[edit]

  • Number of stems: 4.1M
  • Coverage: ~87.4%

2010[edit]

  • Number of stems: 3.4M
  • Coverage: ~88%

Kazakh[edit]

2009[edit]

2010[edit]

  • Number of stems: 3.2M
  • Coverage: ~85.4%