Texts from "Sweden a pocket guide"

SND-ID: EXT 0330

This study is part of the collection Parallel Texts from Public Agencies

Description Data and documentation

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Simon Dahlberg - Institute for Language and Folklore, Language Council of Sweden

Institute for Language and Folklore

Description

Parallel texts in form of the book "Sweden a pocket guide", translated to several languages. The material has been downloaded from the website of Immigrantinstitutet.
Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Institute for Language and Folklore

Responsible department/unit

Institute for Language and Folklore, Language Council of Sweden

Contributor(s)

Institute for Language and Folklore

Identifiers

Protection and ethical review
Method

Sampling procedure

Multilingual parallel material.
Language resources

Resource type

Corpus

Foreseen use

NLP application

Text corpus

  • Linguality

    Multilingual

  • Language

    • Swedish (swe)

      Texts: 1

    • English (eng)

      Texts: 1

    • Croatian (hrv)

      Texts: 1

    • Arabic (ara)

      Texts: 1

    • Russian (rus)

      Texts: 1

    • French (fra)

      Texts: 1

    More..

  • Modality

    Written Language

  • Size

    Texts: 6 (TOT)

    Words: 428569 (TOT)

    Texts: 1 (swe)

    Words: 56052 (swe)

  • Original source

    immigrantinstitutet
    http://immi.se/sverige/sverigeguide/
Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Subject area

Migration, SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AND SYSTEMS (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences, Languages and Literature, Cultural Studies (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

emigration and immigration

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Dataset
Parallel texts from "Sweden a pocket guide"

Description

In 2017 only the Swedish version with translations to other EU languages (English, French and Croatian) were downloaded. In 2019 versions in the other languages (Arabic and Russian) were downloaded too.
What was downloaded were pdf files. The txt files that are available are the result of running the pdf files through the pdftotext command from an ubuntu shell.

Data format / data structure

Text

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Simon Dahlberg - Institute for Language and Folklore, Language Council of Sweden

Institute for Language and Folklore

Data collection 1

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered writings and/or diaries: web-based
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2017-04-01–2017-04-30

Data collection 2

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire: web based
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2019-01-01–2019-01-31

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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Published: 2020-03-30