• the Jožef Stefan Institute hosts a web interface where many of our corpora can be used directly for free: http://nl.ijs.si/noske/wacs.cgi/first_form
• the University of Lancaster hosts ItWaC and a sample of UkWaC (registration is required but the service is free): http://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/

• if you are interested in downloading and using the corpora described here (for free, we're not selling them) please contact us.

• the semantically and syntactically annotated Italian Wikipedia is available for direct download from here:
  • CoNLL format (tagset)
  • MultiTag format

• Seed words and tuples
• Seed URLs
• Frequency lists
• Keyword lists: ukWaC vs. the BNC

This is an incomplete list of tools used to build corpora from the web

• BootCaT toolkit – bootstrap specialized corpora and terms from the web

• Shared ngram collector – Perl script useful for near-duplicate detection
• Onion – a tool for removing duplicate parts from large collections of texts.

• jusText – a tool for removing boilerplate content
• WebContentExtractor – a tool for content extraction from web pages for building web corpora
• the PotaModule (a Perl module that is intended to perform “boilerplate” stripping and other forms of HTML document filtering and extraction) is available in the BootCaT toolkit (see link above).