Tracking, exploring and analyzing recent developments in German-language
online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis: cOWIDplus Analysis and
cOWIDplus Viewer
The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest crisis the world has had to face
since World War II. It does not come as a surprise that it is also having an
impact on language as our primary communication tool. We present three
inter-connected resources that are designed to capture and illustrate these
effects on a subset of the German language: An RSS corpus of German-language
newsfeeds (with freely available untruncated unigram frequency lists), a static
but continuously updated HTML page tracking the diversity of the used
vocabulary and a web application that enables other researchers and the broader
public to explore these effects without any or with little knowledge of corpus
representation/exploration or statistical analyses.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, 3852 word
