Lars Ahrenberg
Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, Sweden
Henrik Danielsson
The Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linkoping University, Sweden
Hampus Arvå
Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, Sweden
Staffan Bengtsson
The Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Jonk ¨ oping University, Sweden
Lotta Holme
The Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linkoping University, Sweden
Arne Jönsson
Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoping University, Sweden
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https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp2020172002Published in: Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 172:2, p. 1-11
Published: 2020-07-03
ISBN: 978-91-7929-807-4
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
In Swedish, as in other languages, the words used to refer to disabilities and people with disabilities
are manifold. Recommendations as to which terms to use have been changed several times
over the last hundred years. In this exploratory paper we have used textual resources provided by
Swe-Clarin to study such changes quantitatively. We demonstrate that old and new recommendations
co-exist for long periods of time, and that usage sometimes converges.