CONTRAST-IT corpus: Italian data collection

This data collection served to create the CONTRAST-IT corpus. 

CONTRAST-IT is a medium-size multilingual corpus (including ca. 1.5 million words) based on a comparable collection of articles published in online daily newspapers. The articles are written in five languages: Italian (from Italy), French (from France), Spanish (from Spain), English (from the UK), and German (from Germany).

This Italian dataset includes 300'000 words drawn from 531 articles. All the texts collected are authentic, full-length electronic journalistic articles, chosen based on their high representativeness of contemporary Italian newspaper language. The articles were published in 2011 and 2012 in three electronic daily newspapers (repubblica.it, lastampa.it, corriere.it).

The corpus and data collection were used in two Swiss National Science Foundation Projects:

• Italian Constituent Order in a Contrastive Perspective (ICOCP) (snf.ch)
• Italian Sentence Adverbs in a Contrastive Perspective (ISAaC) (snf.ch)

For details on the corpus and data collection, see:

• De Cesare, A.-M. 2019. CONTRAST-IT e COMPARE-IT. Due nuovi corpora per l’italiano contemporaneo. CHIMERA. Romance Corpora and Linguistic studies 6: 43-74. https://revistas.uam.es/chimera/article/view/11430
• CONTRAST-IT. Corpus | contrast_it: italiano in prospettiva contrastiva / Italian in a contrastive perspective (unibas.ch)