Serbian Coronavirus Corpus NewsSR

A corpus of news articles on the topic of the covid-19 pandemic, published in major Serbian daily newspapers and news portals in the six-month early pandemic period (March 2020 to September 2020).The corpus is designed to facilitate research on crisis discourses, crisis communication, as well as pandemic-time linguistic innovation. It is available in plain text version and XML with full metadata. Covid-NEWS-SR is complemented with a separate corpus of citizen metalanguage comments, i.e. online comments to the news articles, available as Covid-NEWS-Comm-SR. Parallel versions from Slovenia and Croatia are also available.

The project leading to this publication has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the H2020-EU.4. - SPREADING EXCELLENCE AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION programme Widening fellowships grant agreement No 101038047.