The Korean Coronavirus Corpus: A Large-Scale Analysis Using Computational Skills

Gyu-min Lee (이규민); Sanghoun Song (송상헌)

doi:10.14353/sjk.2022.30.3.08

The Korean Coronavirus Corpus: A Large-Scale Analysis Using Computational Skills

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
Abbr : 사회언어학
2022, 30(3), pp.213-243
DOI : 10.14353/sjk.2022.30.3.08
Publisher : The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
Research Area : Humanities > Linguistics
Received : August 10, 2022
Accepted : September 1, 2022
Published : September 30, 2022

Gyu-min Lee ¹, Sanghoun Song ²

¹기타기관
²고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

Despite the massive impact of COVID-19 on society, beyond the numbers of confirmed cases and deaths, there remains a lack of large-scale data depicting the effects of the virus on the society of the Republic of Korea. To fill this gap, we collected 1.822 million news articles with more than 1 billion morphemes from January 2020 to June 2022, creating a Korean version of the Coronavirus Corpus. This corpus is introduced in the current study. In addition, to demonstrate how such massive corpus can be utilized, we conducted information theoretical analyses to see how the stance of the press media on topics such as vaccines and social distancing affected the COVID-19 situation in the Republic of Korea. Specifically, we utilized several computational linguistic skills including concordance building and sentiment analysis through both traditional and machine learning techniques and measured the transfer entropy to estimate the impact with information theory. The results suggest that the overall impact of the press media on the society was minimal to non-existent.

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COVID-19, media, Republic of Korea, corpus, computational linguistics, sentiment analysis, diachronic analysis

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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