KorAP: Frequently Asked Questions
This document puts together the most frequent questions and issues that we have encountered so far. Please feel welcome to ask further questions via e-mail.
KorAP sources are available on GitHub.
In the alpha phase, part of our tasks is to optimize the system. In the beginning, one may expect some actions to take an inordinate amount of time, but this is getting better and better. If you notice a persistent failure in some specific case, please be so kind as to let us know.Where is the source code?
Why do some queries take a long time to finish, or in the end yield no results?
I want to report an issue, how do I do it?
Please refer to our public ticketing system for the frontend at GitHub to report on any issues. If you don't have a GitHub account, please send us an e-mail.
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Publications to refer to Wiki talk corpus as research data
Margaretha, Eliza/Lüngen, Harald/Diewald, Nils/Kupietz, Marc/Yaddehige, Rameela (2025): Building and querying Wikipedia discussion corpora using KorAP. In: Impulses and Approaches to Computer-Mediated Communication: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC 2025). Edited by Annamária Fábián/Igor Trost, p. 123-124.
Publications to refer to KorAP as a research tool
Diewald, Nils/Bodmer, Franck/Harders, Peter/Irimia, Elena/Kupietz, Marc/Margaretha, Eliza/Stallkamp, Helge (2021): KorAP und EuReCo – Recherchieren in mehrsprachigen vergleichbaren Korpora
In: Lobin, Henning/Witt, Andreas/Wöllstein, Angelika (Hrsg.): Deutsch in Europa. Sprachpolitisch, grammatisch, methodisch. Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache 2020. (= Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache 2020). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 287-294.
Kupietz, Marc/Diewald, Nils/Margaretha, Eliza/Bodmer, Franck/Stallkamp, Helge/Harders, Peter (2020): Recherche in Social-Media-Korpora mit KorAP
In: Marx, Konstanze/Lobin, Henning/Schmidt, Axel (Hrsg.), Deutsch in Sozialen Medien. Interaktiv, multimodal, vielfältig, Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache 2019. de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, pp. 373–378.
Diewald, Nils/Hanl, Michael/Margaretha, Eliza/Bingel, Joachim/Kupietz, Marc/Bański, Piotr/Witt, Andreas (2016): KorAP architecture - Diving in the Deep Sea of Corpus Data
In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). Portorož/Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 3586–3591.