Building Carolina: Metadata for Provenance and Typology in a Corpus of Contemporary Brazilian Portuguese

This paper presents the challenges of building Carolina, a large open corpus of Brazilian Portuguese texts developed since 2020 using the Web-as-Corpus methodology enhanced with provenance and typology concerns (WaC-wiPT). The corpus aims at being used both as a reliable source for research in Linguistics and as an important resource for Computer Science research on language models. Above all, this endeavor aims at removing Portuguese from the set of “low-resource languages”. This paper details Carolina's construction methodology, with special attention to the issue of describing provenance and typology according to international standards, while briefly describing its relationship with other existing corpora, its current state of development and its future directions.