The project The New order of Criticism (Swedish: KNO) collected data on older Swedish book reviews. This corpus contains material from three sources, all manually annotated, but using different forms of annotation. From the literary magazine Ord och bild, all text from 1982 to 1949 is included, with reviews marked by "review" and categorised as fiction or other. From the feminist magazine Dagny, all text is included, with some noise removed. The material is separated by "text" tags and categorised as review (rec), article (art), announcement (kun), and fiction (sko). From 1906 newspapers from the National library collections, the texts are segmented, categorised as review or article (i.e. non-review), and marked with additional metadata. The texts are in arbitrary order, in two files, reviews and non-reviews.
Data citation
Zechner, Niklas (2025). Swedish book reviews (updated: 2025-01-24). [Data set]. Språkbanken Text. https://doi.org/10.23695/kqjj-s110
Additional ways to cite the dataset.
Texts from newspapers and magazines, manually annotated with book reviews.
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kno-dagny.zip
Material from Dagny
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13.74 MB | 2025-12-15 | CC-BY-4.0 |
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kno-oob.zip
Material from Ord och bild
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70.13 MB | 2025-12-15 | CC-BY-4.0 |
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kno-kb.zip
Material from KB
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4.73 MB | 2025-12-15 | CC-BY-4.0 |