# The Danish Gigaword Project

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03521 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.03521/

## Key facts

- Cited by 17 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 7 May 2020.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Danish language technology has been hindered by a lack of broad-coverage corpora at the scale modern NLP prefers. This paper describes the Danish Gigaword Corpus, the result of a focused effort to provide a diverse and freely-available one billion word corpus of Danish text. The Danish Gigaword corpus covers a wide array of time periods, domains, speakers' socio-economic status, and Danish dialects.