Description

The Paisà corpus is a large collection of Italian web texts, created in the context of the project PAISÀ. The corpus contains approximately 380,000 documents coming from about 1,000 different websites, for a total of about 250 million words. Approximately 260,000 documents are from Wikipedia, approx. 5,600 from other Wikimedia Foundation projects. About 9,300 documents come from Indymedia, and we estimate that about 65,000 documents come from blog services. Documents are marked in the corpus by an XML "text" tag with "id" and "url" attributes, the first corresponding to a unique numeric code assigned to each document, the second providing the original URL of the document.