Värdering av SAOB:s korpus och språkprovssamling

Resumé

The Swedish Academy Dictionary bases its description of the Swedish language from 1521 till today on a collection of about 7.5 million slips containing a full sentence illustrating the use of a word or an expression. These are excerpts made from about 20,000 sources. Texts that have been systematically excerpted, thus contributing about three words per page, number about 11,000.
The collected material gives a good coverage of written standard Swedish of various styles. The quotations have mainly been made by selected and properly instructed persons. This is one reason for the reasonably high quality and usefulness of the material. The enormous amount of concerted work carried out on word selection and lemmatization is another. Concordances based on mainly 20th-century texts are used to fill in the material and to check the analysis based on the slips. Concordances of older texts are not yet available in great enough number to be of any importance.