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Observatorio Lazaro database tracks anglicisms in Spanish press

Researchers have developed Observatorio Lazaro, a system designed to track the use of English loanwords, or anglicisms, within the Spanish digital press. Since April 2020, this system has automatically identified and cataloged over two million borrowings across nearly two million articles. The analysis indicates that anglicisms appear at a stable rate of approximately two per thousand tokens and that the vocabulary of these loanwords is continually expanding, with many appearing only once. AI

IMPACT Provides a continuously updated resource for linguistic analysis of loanword usage in media.

RANK_REASON The item describes a research paper detailing a new language resource and its methodology. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.4]

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Observatorio Lazaro database tracks anglicisms in Spanish press

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Elena Alvarez-Mellado ·

    Observatorio Lazaro: A self-populating database of anglicism usage in the Spanish press

    arXiv:2608.00713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper describes Observatorio L\'azaro, a language resource that monitors unassimilated lexical borrowings (predominantly English lexical borrowings or anglicisms) in the Spanish digital press. Since April 2020 the system has au…