The first step in the creation of our Corpora was coming up with lists of basic words and mid-frequency words collected from other corpora. We then randomly combined these words in pairs and sent each pair as a query to Google in order to obtain seed URLs.

• deWaC seed words
• deWaC seed pairs

• itWaC seed words
• itWaC seed pairs

• ukWaC seed words (collected from the BNC)
• ukWaC seed pairs