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Web Corpus

Definition:

A web corpus refers to a large collection of text documents or web pages that serve as a linguistic resource used for linguistic analysis, machine learning, and various other research purposes.

Senses:

Sense 1:

As a noun:

A web corpus can be utilized to study the language usage patterns on the internet, analyze trends, or extract linguistic information.

Example sentence:

Researchers analyzed a web corpus of millions of web pages to identify the most frequently used words in online content.

Sense 2:

As a noun:

In computational linguistics, a web corpus helps in training language models and developing natural language processing algorithms.

Example sentence:

The development of an accurate web corpus facilitated the improvement of machine translation systems.

Sense 3:

As a noun:

A web corpus is an invaluable resource for researchers investigating language variations in different regions or local communities.

Example sentence:

The linguist compared the web corpus of British English and American English to identify the variations in vocabulary and spelling.

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