Documentation#
Welcome to the documentation of the Swiss-AL Platform. Here you will find guides and references for analysing Swiss public communication.
New to Swiss-AL? The Quickstart Guide takes you from logging in to your first analysis: creating a project, selecting a corpus, and choosing a tool.
Working with the platform#
Swiss-AL holds a large, multilingual collection of Swiss public communication, currently more than four billion words. You can trace how the frequency of a word has changed over time, examine the contexts a term appears in, and identify thematic trends across Swiss journalism as well as publications from political, industrial, scientific, and civil society organizations.
Which text collections Swiss-AL contains, where the texts come from, and the sampling criteria behind each corpus.
What each analysis tool does, what it is suited to, and how to use it.
How to build precise queries and search across corpora.
How the corpora are collected, processed, annotated, and structured.
Reference and background#
Glossary — corpus-linguistic terms as they are used on the platform and in this documentation
Frequently Asked Questions — answers to common questions about access, data, and analysis
Open Educational Resources — teaching and learning material built around Swiss-AL
Bibliography — research based on Swiss-AL, and how to cite the platform
Swiss-AL and FAIR Principles — how the platform addresses findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse
About Us — the ZHAW Digital Discourse Lab
Note
Swiss-AL is free of charge for research and teaching. Full access requires a Switch edu-ID; without an account you can explore the demo corpora. Use of the platform and its data is subject to the Terms of Use.