A dataset of Gansu online media texts and neologisms for research on language life in ethnic areas

This study constructed a dataset of online media in Gansu Province from 2013 to 2022, with data from six major online media platforms in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture and Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, including Linxia Prefecture Government Website, Ethnic Daily, China Linxia Website, Shambhala Online, and China Gannan Website. The dataset covers a wide range of social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of the ethnic areas in Gansu, spanning a decade, and all the data are Chinese-language news reports and commentaries. Neologism extraction was carried out for each year's dataset, and the extracted neologisms were analyzed for their characteristics in terms of word frequency, lexicality, word number, cohesion, degrees of freedom, and neologism probability. The dataset was constructed with strict quality control measures, including manual proofreading, noise filtering, de-emphasis processing and language annotation, to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the data. This dataset is an important basic data for the study of language use, social and cultural dynamics and bilingual education development in ethnic areas, and has the value of being widely used in policy analysis, social opinion monitoring and language policy research.