Lifcach 2.0: Word Frequency List Of Chilean Spanish (Lista De Frecuencias De Palabras Del Castellano De Chile), Version 2.0
Creators: name: Sadowsky, Scott
name: Martínez-Gamboa, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Frequency list
Spanish
Chilean Spanish
Corpus
Lexical frequency

description: <strong>LIFCACH 2.0<br>
Word Frequency List of Chilean Spanish (Lista de Frecuencias de Palabras del Castellano de Chile), version 2.0</strong>

<em>More information, as well as the Spanish version of this document, is available in the included README file.</em>

<strong>1. Description</strong>

The Word Frequency List of Chilean Spanish (LIFCACH) is a set of 102 frequency lists derived from the sub-corpora of the <em>Corpus Dinámico del Castellano de Chile</em> (Dynamic Corpus of Chilean Spanish, CODICACH), a database of contemporary written<sup>1</sup> Chilean Spanish developed by Sadowsky between 1997 and 2002; this corpus contained approximately 450 million words when the LIFCACH was created<sup>2</sup>. The LIFCACH also contains a non-weighted list of total frequencies (the <em>Total Occurrences</em> column), which is the sum of the frequencies of the 102 individual lists (in other words, the list of frequencies of the entire CODICACH corpus.)

The CODICACH is an opportunistic corpus with a bias toward press-based sources; it does not seek to be a BNC-style representative sampling of the overall written language. The modular nature of the CODICACH and of the 102 individual LIFCACH lists, however, allows researchers to use one or more of these lists alone, to combine them as needed, or to create their own frequency lists for Chilean Spanish by weighting each of the LIFCACH’s individual lists as they see fit.

The LIFCACH 2.0 contains 476,776 lemmas<sup>3</sup> derived from the approximately 4.5 million types found in the 450 million running words contained in the CODICACH at the time the lists were created.

<strong>2. Creation of the LIFCACH</strong>

The steps in creating the LIFCACH were as follows:


	
	Type frequency lists based on the running words of each of the 102 sub-corpora of the CODICACH were generated.
	
	
	Each type frequency list was lemmatized and POS-tagged using the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya’s MS-Tools v2.0<sup>4</sup>.
	
	
	Lemmas with a frequency of 1 were removed (approximately 300,000) in the case of the …No-Hapax.xlsx version. Eliminating these was considered an acceptable trade-off in exchange for a far more manageable file size.
	
	
	The resulting lemma frequency lists were assembled and total occurrences were calculated.
	


An important caveat regarding this methodology must be mentioned. The use of type frequency lists instead of running words in the POS tagging and lemmatizing process was a practical necessity, due to the speed of the software used and the computing resources available at the time the LIFCACH was created. However, this reduced the accuracy of the lemmatization process by eliminating context. As a result, the software had to analyze words such as <em>canto</em> without the information required to decide if a given instance of this word is a form of the verb <em>cantar</em> or the noun <em>canto</em>.

It should also be noted that the lemmatizing and tagging software that was used is based on European Spanish, a national dialect that is rather removed from Chilean Spanish.

<strong>3. Part of Speech Categories</strong>

The following are the POS codes used in the frequency lists:


	AJ = Adjective
	AV = Adverb
	C = Conjunction
	D = Determiner
	I = Interjection
	N = Noun, Common
	NG = Noun, Geographic (Toponym)
	NP = Noun, Proper
	PN = Pronoun
	PP = Preposition
	SG = Abbreviation
	V = Verb


<strong>4. List of Sources</strong>

Each frequency list in the LIFCACH is derived from a different sub-corpus of the CODICACH. The codes used for these lists are as follows:


	ACAD_CCAA = Academic Texts - Applied Sciences
	ACAD_CCNN = Academic Texts - Natural Sciences
	ACAD_CCSS = Academic Texts - Social Sciences
	ACAD_Hum = Academic Texts - Humanities
	DIAR_CEN_Estrella_Valpo = Newspaper – Central Chile – Estrella de Valparaíso
	DIAR_CEN_Gran_Valpo = Newspaper – Central Chile – Gran Valparaíso
	DIAR_CEN_Lider_San_Antonio = Newspaper – Central Chile – El Líder, San Antonio
	DIAR_CEN_Mercurio_Valpo = Newspaper – Central Chile – El Mercurio, Valparaíso
	DIAR_NOR_Estrella_Arica = Newspaper – North Chile – La Estrella, Arica
	DIAR_NOR_Estrella_Iquique = Newspaper – North Chile – La Estrella, Iquique
	DIAR_NOR_Estrella_Loa = Newspaper – North Chile – La Estrella, Loa
	DIAR_NOR_Estrella_Norte_Antofagasta = Newspaper – North Chile – La Estrella, Antofagasta
	DIAR_NOR_Mercurio_Antofagasta = Newspaper – North Chile – El Mercurio, Antofagasta
	DIAR_NOR_Mercurio_Calama = Newspaper – North Chile – El Mercurio, Calama
	DIAR_NOR_Nortino_Iquique = Newspaper – North Chile – El Nortino, Iquique
	DIAR_SAN_Cuarta = Newspaper – Santiago – La Cuarta
	DIAR_SAN_Estrategia = Newspaper – Santiago – Estrategia
	DIAR_SAN_Firme = Newspaper – Santiago – La Firme
	DIAR_SAN_Mercurio = Newspaper – Santiago – El Mercurio
	DIAR_SAN_Metropolitano = Newspaper – Santiago – El Metropolitano
	DIAR_SAN_Mostrador = Newspaper – Santiago – El Mostrador
	DIAR_SAN_Primera_Linea = Newspaper – Santiago – Primera Línea
	DIAR_SAN_Primera_Pagina-El_Area = Newspaper – Santiago – Primera Página / El Área
	DIAR_SAN_Segunda = Newspaper – Santiago – La Segunda
	DIAR_SAN_Tercera = Newspaper – Santiago – La Tercera
	DIAR_SAN_Ultimas_Noticias = Newspaper – Santiago – Las Últimas Noticias
	DIAR_SUR_Austral_Osorno = Newspaper – South Chile – Austral, Osorno
	DIAR_SUR_Austral_Temuco = Newspaper – South Chile – Austral, Temuco
	DIAR_SUR_Austral_Valdivia = Newspaper – South Chile – Austral, Valdivia
	DIAR_SUR_Cronica = Newspaper – South Chile – Crónica
	DIAR_SUR_El_Sur = Newspaper – South Chile – El Sur
	DIAR_SUR_Enc_BioBio = Newspaper – South Chile – Enciclop. Bío-Bío
	DIAR_SUR_Llanquihue_Pto_Montt = Newspaper – South Chile – El Llanquihue, Pto. Montt
	ESPER_CartasDirector = Personal Writings – Letters to Editor
	ESPER_ForosInet = Personal Writings – Internet Site Forums
	ESPER_Clasificados = Personal Writings – Classified Ads
	ESPER_ForosMedios = Personal Writings – Media Forums
	ESPER_Usenet = Personal Writings – Usenet
	LEX_Jurisprudencia = Legal – Jurisprudence
	LEX_Leyes = Legal – Laws
	LEX_Libros = Legal – Law Books
	LEX_Misc = Legal – Miscellaneous
	LIBR_Ficcion = Books – Fiction
	LIBR_NoFiccion = Books – Non-Fiction
	OBRC_CandiaCares_DicoCoa = Reference Works – Dictionary of Coa
	OBRC_GonzalezParra_ManualProvrb = Reference Works – Book of Chilean Proverbs
	ORAL_Entrevistas_Lgtcas = Oral – Linguistic Interviews
	ORAL_TV = Oral – Television
	PUB_Misc = Advertising – General 1
	PUB_Publicidad = Advertising – General 2
	REV_CMP_ChileTech = Magazine – Computers – ChileTech
	REV_CMP_CompuChile = Magazine – Computers – CompuChile
	REV_CMP_ComputerWorld = Magazine – Computers – ComputerWorld
	REV_CMP_Informatica = Magazine – Computers – Informática
	REV_CMP_Infoweek = Magazine – Computers – Infoweek
	REV_CMP_Internet21 = Magazine – Computers – Internet21
	REV_CMP_Mouse = Magazine – Computers – Mouse
	REV_DEP_All = Magazine – Sports
	REV_ESP_Capital = Magazine – Specialty – Capital
	REV_ESP_CiudadArquitectura = Magazine – Specialty – CiudadArquitectura
	REV_ESP_Conicyt = Magazine – Specialty – Conicyt Scientific
	REV_ESP_CopropInmob = Magazine – Specialty – Copropiedad Inmobiliaria
	REV_ESP_DiarioSocCivil = Magazine – Specialty – Diario de la Sociedad Civil
	REV_ESP_Educar = Magazine – Specialty – Educar
	REV_ESP_LemuChile = Magazine – Specialty – LemuChile
	REV_ESP_Lignum = Magazine – Specialty – Lignum
	REV_ESP_Mensaje = Magazine – Specialty – Mensaje
	REV_ESP_Notas_CESAF = Magazine – Specialty – Notas CESAF
	REV_ESP_Publimark = Magazine – Specialty – Publimark
	REV_ESP_Rev_Inf_Musical = Magazine – Specialty – Revista Musical
	REV_ESP_Rev_Scielo = Magazine – Specialty – Scielo Scientific
	REV_ESP_Rev_Social = Magazine – Specialty – Revista Social
	REV_ESP_Rev_Trabajo_Social = Magazine – Specialty – Revista de Trabajo Social
	REV_ESP_RevChil_Cirujia = Magazine – Specialty – Revista Chilena de Cirujía
	REV_ESP_Revistas_Industriales = Magazine – Specialty – Industrial Magazines
	REV_ESP_Sidhartha = Magazine – Specialty – Siddhartha
	REV_GEN_Asuntos_Publicos = Magazine – General – Asuntos Públicos
	REV_GEN_Cosas = Magazine – General – Cosas
	REV_GEN_Cultura_Urbana = Magazine – General – Cultura Urbana
	REV_GEN_El_Siglo = Magazine – General – El Siglo
	REV_GEN_Ercilla = Magazine – General – Ercilla
	REV_GEN_Hacer_Familia = Magazine – General – Hacer Familia
	REV_GEN_Man = Magazine – General – Man
	REV_GEN_Mujer_a_mujer = Magazine – General – Mujer a mujer
	REV_GEN_Nos = Magazine – General – Nos
	REV_GEN_Puerto_Paralelo = Magazine – General – Puerto Paralelo
	REV_GEN_Punto_Final = Magazine – General – Punto Final
	REV_GEN_Que_Pasa = Magazine – General – Qué Pasa
	REV_GEN_Revista_ED = Magazine – General – Revista ED
	REV_GEN_Rocinante = Magazine – General – Rocinante
	REV_INF_Dirigible = Magazine – Children’s – Dirigible
	REV_INF_Icarito = Magazine – Children’s – Icarito
	REV_INF_Papas_Fritas = Magazine – Children’s – Papas Fritas
	REV_INF_Volare = Magazine – Children’s – Volare
	REV_JUV_All = Magazines – Youth
	REV_LOC_All = Magazines – Local
	RVDI_ECN_Diario_PyME = Financial Mags &amp; Newspapers – Diario PyME
	RVDI_ECN_El_Diario = Financial Mags &amp; Newspapers – El Diario
	RVDI_ECN_Emprendedores = Financial Mags &amp; Newspapers – Emprendedores
	RVDI_ECN_Negocios_Ambientales = Financial Mags &amp; Newspapers – Negoc. Ambientales
	SIT_INS_All = Government Sites 1
	SIT_INS_Old = Government Sites 2


<strong>NOTES</strong>

<sup>1</sup> Although the CODICACH does contain two oral corpora, <em>ORAL_Entrevistas_Lgtcas</em> and <em>ORAL_TV</em>, these are of such negligible size that the CODICACH must be considered a corpus of written Spanish.

<sup>2</sup> The CODICACH currently contains approximately 850 million words.

<sup>3</sup> This is the number of non-hapax lemmas. The total number of lemmas in the LIFCACH, including hapax legomena, is 844,370.

<sup>4</sup> MS-Tools was the predecessor of FreeLing.