@inproceedings{ferraresi-etal-2008-introducing,
    title = "Introducing, evaluating uk{W}a{C}, a very large web-derived corpus of {E}nglish",
    author = "Ferraresi, Adriano  and
      Zanchetta, Eros  and
      Baroni, Marco  and
      Bernardini, Silvia",
    editor = "Evert, Stefan  and
      Kilgarriff, Adam  and
      Sharoff, Serge",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Web as Corpus Workshop",
    month = jun,
    year = "2008",
    address = "Marrakech, Morocco",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2008.wac-1.8/",
    pages = "47--54",
    abstract = "In this paper we introduce ukWaC, a large corpus of English constructed by crawling the .uk Internet domain. The corpus contains more than 2 billion tokens, is one of the largest freely available linguistic resources for English. The paper describes the tools, methodology used in the construction of the corpus, provides a qualitative evaluation of its contents, carried out through a vocabulary-based comparison with the BNC. We conclude by giving practical information about availability, format of the corpus."
}