SpokenChichewaCorpus

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The Corpus contains (I) text of spoken Chichewa from Newspaper articles and (II) Parallel text
Chichewa and english.

The newspapers articles are listed in the file newspaper_articles.txt which contains for
each file name, a general category in which the article's theme falls under, the date of publication,
the name of the author, the Chichewa name of the article. There are a total of 260 newspaper articles
all taken from The Nation newspapers, online edition. They have been categorised in broad categories
as follows. All articles are written by native Chichewa speakers, not obtained by automatic translation.

CATEGORY NO. ARTICLES
ECONOMY 21
EDUCATION 7
FARMING 21
FLOODING 5
HEALTH 14
HIV 5
LAW/ORDER 27
LOCALCHIEFS 13
MUSIC 3
OPINION/ESSAY 13
POLITICS 66
RELIGION 5
SOCIAL 43
SPORTS 12
TRANSPORT 1
WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENT 2
WITCHCRAFT 2
Total 260

The parallel corpus contains the Chichewa text in files with ending _ny and the corresponding
english translation in files with the same numbering by ending in _en. The text is arranged
on numbered lines. The files names b01 - b06 contain technical language. The file
Parallel_Technical_Chichewa.txt contains a description of these files.

b01_en, BUSINESS,Alliance One International Inc Code of Business Conduct
b02_en, ENVIRONMENT, 2011 Rainforest Alliance Tea Implementation Guide
b03_en, ENVIRONMENT, MALAWI NATIONAL GUIDELINES:INTEGRATED CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT AND RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
b04_en, ENVIRONMENT, FMA Ntchisi Block Management Guide
b05_en, HEALTH, Womens Pregnancy Health Questionnaire Courtney Allen
b06_en, FAMILY, Family Life Questionnaire by Lauren Libruk

The files named p10 - p10 contain poetry verses and are described in Parallel_Poetry_Sources.txt
For each file we give the following information:
FileName,ChichewaTitle, English_Title, Author, NewsPaper,NewspaperDate,Translator