This is an old revision of the document!
Repubblica
Click here to consult the "la Repubblica" corpus
The “la Repubblica” corpus is a very large corpus of Italian newspaper text (approximately 380M tokens).
The corpus is tokenized, pos-tagged (with the Treetagger trained with ad-hoc resources), lemmatized (with Morph-it) and categorized in terms of genre and topic (with SVMLight trained with ad-hoc resources).
The POS tagset used by the corpus is available here. The genre labels used in the corpus are news-report and comment; topic labels are church, culture, economics, education, news, politics, science, society, sport, weather.
Articles in the corpus are structured into the following (mostly optional) parts: title, subtitle, summary, text. Meta-data information about article author and year is also available.
Some very out-of-date information about how the corpus was encoded can be found in the following paper: M. Baroni, S. Bernardini, F. Comastri, L. Piccioni, A. Volpi, G. Aston, M. Mazzoleni. 2004. Introducing the “la Repubblica” corpus: A large, annotated, TEI(XML)-compliant corpus of newspaper Italian.Proceedings of LREC 2004.
Other people who have contributed to the development of the corpus are Eros Zanchetta and Sara Castagnoli. Please quote the above paper or the url http://sslmit.unibo.it/repubblica (a permanent link to the corpus interface) if you publish work based on the “la Repubblica” corpus.
Tagset
| Tag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ADJ | adjective |
| ADV | adverb (excluding -mente forms) |
| ADV:mente | adveb ending in -mente |
| ART | article |
| ARTPRE | preposition + article |
| AUX:fin | finite form of auxiliary |
| AUX:fin:cli | finite form of auxiliary with clitic |
| AUX:geru | gerundive form of auxiliary |
| AUX:geru:cli | gerundive form of auxiliary with clitic |
| AUX:infi | infinitival form of auxiliary |
| AUX:infi:cli | infinitival form of auxiliary with clitic |
| AUX:ppast | past participle of auxiliary |
| AUX:ppre | present participle of auxiliary |
| CHE | che |
| CLI | clitic |
| CON | conjunction |
| DET:demo | demonstrative determiner |
| DET:indef | indefinite determiner |
| DET:num | numeral determiner |
| DET:poss | possessive determiner |
| DET:wh | wh determiner |
| NEG | negation |
| NOCAT | non-linguistic element |
| NOUN | noun |
| NPR | proper noun |
| NUM | number |
| PRE | preposition |
| PRO:demo | demonstrative pronoun |
| PRO:indef | indefinite pronoun |
| PRO:num | numeral pronoun |
| PRO:pers | personal pronoun |
| PRO:poss | possessive pronoun |
| PUN | non-sentence-final punctuation mark |
| SENT | sentence-final punctuation mark |
| VER2:fin | finite form of modal/causal verb |
| VER2:fin:cli | finite form of modal/causal verb with clitic |
| VER2:geru | gerundive form of modal/causal verb |
| VER2:geru:cli | gerundive form of modal/causal verb with clitic |
| VER2:infi | infinitival form of modal/causal verb |
| VER2:infi:cli | infinitival form of modal/causal verb with clitic |
| VER2:ppast | past participle of modal/causal verb |
| VER2:ppre | present participle of modal/causal verb |
| VER:fin | finite form of verb |
| VER:fin:cli | finite form of verb with clitic |
| VER:geru | gerundive form of verb |
| VER:geru:cli | gerundive form of verb with clitic |
| VER:infi | infinitival form of verb |
| VER:infi:cli | infinitival form of verb with clitic |
| VER:ppast | past participle of verb |
| VER:ppast:cli | past participle of verb with clitic |
| VER:ppre | present participle of verb |
| WH | wh word |