Varitext

Abstract

This review discusses the web-based platform Varitext that up to now provides free-of-charge access to the Corpus des variétés nationales du français (CoVaNa-FR) and is designed to assimilate further linguistic corpora of other languages in the future. The aim of Varitext is to make available large-scale resources of so-called ‘pluricentric’ languages focussing on the national variations of the respective standard languages. At present French standard varieties in CoVaNa-FR are represented by texts of the francophone daily press. Varitext offers a working environment making it possible to analyse the corpus of standard varieties with primary regard to lexical and statistical aspects.

Keywords

• corpus analysis
• daily press
• french
• linguistic search
• pos-tagging
• standard variety
• text collection