---
license: cc-by-nc-nd-4.0
language:
- de
pretty_name: Fluter Corpus (German)
---

**Fluter Corpus**

This dataset represents a full scrape (approx. 2.8M lexical tokens) of the website [fluter.de](https://fluter.de), a free youth magazine by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (FACE, German: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb)). It contains journalistic articles aimed at young adults (anything from movie reviews to longer-form non-fiction writing). Texts were collected on Feb 20, 2025 and updated on Mar 14, 2025. They go back until (at least) 2004.

All texts are licensed under cc-by-nc-nd-4.0. As the accompanying pictures and photos often are not, we excluded them here. In accordance with the license we provide an index with the URLs and authors of all articles in ```info.csv```.

The individual text files contain only the body text of the articles (and sometimes metatextual information, like author names or picture rights for the original articles). Some of them might be empty (e.g. if the page only points to a YouTube video). 

If you use this dataset, please cite the following publication:
```
@misc{bunzeck2025constructiondistributionsshapeformal,
      title={Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning In German BabyLMs?}, 
      author={Bastian Bunzeck and Daniel Duran and Sina Zarrieß},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2503.11593},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11593}, 
}
```