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1.3.4 Languages and varieties
Languages and varieties per chat
In order to assign a language tagging to each chat, we looked the first 250 messages and assigned two possible attributes per language:
- lang_100_and_more: Languages that were found in more than 100 messages
- lang_less_than_100: Languages that were less frequent
for the following languages:
- fra: French
- ita: Italian
- roh: Any variety of Romansh
- gsw: dialectal German as used in Switzerland
- deu: non-dialectal German
- eng: English
- spa: Spanish
- sla: Any Slavic language
Please note: In the browsing tool ANNIS, we created sub-corpora per language, where each message appears in one and only one sub-corpus. In most cases, this it the language that delivers more than 100 chats. If there are two languages providing more than 100 messages, we arbitrarily prioritized the languages: ROH > GSW > FRA > DEU > ITA > ENG/SPA/SLA.
If you want to work with all chats that contain a specific language in more than 100 messages, use the query msg & meta::lang_100_and_more=“fra, gsw” on the whole corpus.
For an overview over languages and varieties in the corpus consult: Ueberwasser, Simone; Stark, Elisabeth (2017)2017: "What’s up, Switzerland? A corpus-based research project in a multilingual country". In: Linguistik online, 84/5, 105-126. https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/3849/5834