The Nordic tweet stream: A dynamic real-Time monitor corpus of big and rich language data

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 2084, Issue , 2018, Pages 349-362

  Laitinen, Mikko ^a   Lundberg, Jonas ^b   Levin, Magnus ^b   Martins, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; English as a lingua Franca; Language choice; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; LINGUISTICS; METADATA; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; CORPUS LINGUISTICS; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA; LANGUAGE CHOICE; REAL TIME MONITORS; TWITTER; UNSTRUCTURED DATA;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

EID: 85045342911     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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