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"What's up, Switzerland?"

The project

The linguistic corpus presented here was collected in 2014 to constitute the data base of the research project "What's up, Switzerland?" under the lead of Prof. Elisabeth Stark (University of Zurich). The project was funded by the Swiss National Fund (Sinergia: CRSII1_160714) with CHF 1'832'647 and ran between 2016 - 2020. More about the project ...

The corpus

Our authentic WhatsApp chats were gathered in summer 2014. Not all made it into the corpus (e.g. doublets, chats or message without permission etc.). In its present form, the corpus comprises:

  • Number of chats: 617
  • Number of messages (with permission to be used): 763’644
  • Number of tokens: 5'155'476 (without redactedQ.* (cf. Messages without permission))
  • Number of emojis: 382'116

More information about the corpus can be found in the section corpus and in the following publication:

Ueberwasser, Simone/Stark, Elisabeth (2017). "What’s up, Switzerland? A corpus-based research project in a multilingual country". Linguistik online 84/5, 105-126 DOI: https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.84.3849 .

Using the corpus

This corpus is freely available for academic, non-commercial research. When using the corpus, please make sure to quote correctly.

Quoting

When using the corpus, please quote as follows:

The corpus

Stark, Elisabeth; Ueberwasser, Simone; Göhring, Anne (2014-2020). Corpus "What’s up, Switzerland?". University of Zurich. www.whatsup-switzerland.ch.

This documentation

Ueberwasser, Simone (2020): The corpus "What's up, Switzerland?". Documentation, facts and figures. www.whatsup-switzerland.ch.

Overview and statistics

For an overview over languages in the corpus consult: Ueberwasser, Simone; Stark, Elisabeth (2017): “What’s up, Switzerland? A corpus-based research project in a multilingual country”. In: Linguistik online, 84/5, 105-126. https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/3849/5834

The project

Stark, Elisabeth (2016-2020). SNSF project "What’s up, Switzerland?" (Sinergia: CRSII1_160714). University of Zurich. www.whatsup-switzerland.ch.

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