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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.

Where is the source code?

Parts of KorAP are already available on GitHub, and we will publish more components in the future.

Why do some queries take a long time to finish, or in the end yield no results?

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.

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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Citation Help

Recent publications to refer to DeReKo as linguistic research data

IDS (2023): Deutsches Referenzkorpus / Archiv der Korpora geschriebener Gegenwartssprache 2023-I (Release vom 31.03.2023).
Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache.

Kupietz, Marc/Lüngen, Harald/Diewald, Nils (2023): Das Gesamtkonzept des Deutschen Referenzkorpus DeReKo. Vom Design bis zur Verwendung und darüber hinaus
In: Deppermann, Arnulf/Fandrych, Christian/Kupietz, Marc/Schmidt, Thomas (Hrsg.): Korpora in der germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft. Mündlich, schriftlich, multimedial. Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache 2022. (= Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache 2022). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 1-28.

Kupietz, Marc/Lüngen, Harald/Kamocki, Paweł/Witt, Andreas (2018): The German Reference Corpus DeReKo: New Developments – New Opportunities
In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Miyazaki/Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 4353-4360.

Kupietz, Marc/Belica, Cyril/Keibel, Holger/Witt, Andreas (2010): The German Reference Corpus DeReKo: A primordial sample for linguistic research
In: Calzolari, Nicoletta et al. (eds.): Proceedings of the 7th conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010). Valletta, Malta: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 1848-1854.

Recent publications to refer to KorAP as a research tool

Diewald, Nils/Gierke, Marco/Kupietz, Marc/Lüngen, Harald (2024): Das Orthografische Kernkorpus (OKK) in DeReKo: Zusammensetzung, Analyse- und Zugriffsmöglichkeiten über KorAP. In: Krome, Sabine/Habermann, Mechthild/Lobin, Henning/Wöllstein, Angelika (Hgg.): Schriftsystem – Norm – Schreibgebrauch. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, S. 329–344. https://doi.org/doi:10.1515/9783111389219-017.

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.