Racó Forums Corpus

The Racó Forums Corpus is a 19-million-sentence corpus of Catalan user-generated text built from the forums of Racó Català.

Since the existing available corpora in Catalan lacked conversational data, we searched for a major source of such data for Catalan, and we found Racó Català, a popular multitopic online forum. We obtained a database dump and we transformed all the threads so that we obtained documents that traversed all the existing paths from the root (initial comment) to the leaves (last comment with no reply). In other words, if T is a tree such that T = {A,B,C,D} and the first comment is A that is replied by B and C independently, and, then, C is replied by D, we obtain two different documents A,B and A,C,D in the fairseq language modeling format. The corpora has been anonimized by changing user names to common Catalan names and removing emails and mentions to the forum itself.