DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17413918
title: COMECAYO: Corpus Mediático de Canarias en YouTube
title: Corpus of Canary Islands Media on YouTube

description:  COMECAYO: Corpus mediático de Canarias en YouTube (Corpus of Canary Islands Media on YouTube)


Project context

 

Comecayo (Corpus mediático de Canarias en YouTube) is a comprehensive corpus of Spanish-language YouTube videos from Canarian media outlets containing timestamped transcriptions. This dataset was developed as part of project A09 "On the interplay between register and socio-geographic variation in Canarian Spanish" within the Collaborative Research Centre 1412 "REGISTER" (Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation), led by Prof. Dr. Miriam Bouzouita at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.. The corpus spans over 15 years of video content from major Canarian television channels, radio stations, and digital media platforms, providing a valuable resource for linguistic research, natural language processing, and computational linguistics studies focusing on Spanish language evolution and regional media discourse patterns.


**Project Information**: [A09 - On the interplay between register and socio-geographic variation in Canarian Spanish](https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/projects/a09/)


Project A09 centers on the crossroads between register and socio-geographic variation in Canarian Spanish for three morpho-syntactic phenomena. The linguistic reality of the Canary Islands is complex as they belong politically to Spain and are influenced by the Peninsular Spanish standard variety, while they share many linguistic features with Latin American Spanish. The project aims to find evidence for a diaglossic situation, characterized by a dialect-to-standard continuum where intermediate varieties exist between the local dialects and the national standard variety, considering the interplay between register parameters (e.g., formality) and socio-geographic ones (e.g., education, age).


 Dataset Characteristics


 Basic Information

- **Language**: Spanish (Canarian Spanish)

- **Content Type**: YouTube video transcriptions with timestamps from Canarian media outlets

- **Total Videos**: 38,947

- **Total Files**: 7,790 Parquet files

- **Valid Dates**: 37,766 videos (97% coverage)

- **Temporal Coverage**: December 14, 2008 - August 18, 2024

- **Duration**: 5,726 days (15.7 years)

- **Total Duration**: 694 days, 2 hours, 52 minutes, 41 seconds

- **Total Tokens**: 228,102,778 tokens


 Data Structure

Each Parquet file contains approximately 5 videos with the following metadata:

- **Title**: Video title

- **Author**: YouTube channel name

- **Length**: Video duration in seconds

- **Views**: View count

- **Video URL**: Direct YouTube link

- **Video ID**: Unique YouTube identifier

- **Publish Date**: Publication date

- **Tags**: Video tags

- **Description**: Video description

- **Transcription**: Timestamped transcription in format `[HH:MM:SS] text content`


 Media Outlets Coverage

The corpus includes content from major Canarian media outlets:

- **InformativosTvc**: 63.4% of content (primary news source)

- **TelevisionCanaria**: 14.0% of content (regional television)

- **Lancelot Digital**: 7.7% of content (digital media)

- **Mírame TV**: 6.1% of content (television channel)

- **Canarias Noticias**: 3.8% of content (news outlet)

- **CANAL4TENERIFE**: 2.4% of content (local television)

- **Canarias Radio**: 1.0% of content (radio station)

- **TV La Palma**: 0.8% of content (local television)

- **CANAL 11 LA PALMA OFICIAL**: 0.6% of content (local television)

- **Noticanarias**: 0.1% of content (news outlet)
 Data Access



 File Organization

```

corpus/

├── corpus_parquet/           Main data files (7,790 files)

│   ├── corpus_data_part_1.parquet

│   ├── corpus_data_part_2.parquet

│   └── ...

 

 


 License


This dataset was created from YouTube subtitles for linguistic and computational analysis. The data were extracted under the text and data mining exception (§44b UrhG, Directive 2019/790/EU) applicable in Germany, for non-commercial scientific research purposes.


Redistribution of the original texts is restricted due to copyright. Therefore, the dataset is archived under closed access.


Derived annotations, metadata, and scripts can be made available upon request for academic collaboration.


 Contact


For questions, issues, or collaboration requests, please contact j.bonilla@hu-berlin.de.


 Version History


- **v1.0** (2025): Initial release with 38,947 videos spanning 2008-2024