We released a new version of the hosted EEBO corpus. Compared to its predecessor, EEBO v2 is almost twice as large and brings also linguistic annotation (regularisation, lemmatisation and POS tagging) that makes its use much easier.
We are proud to announce that the CLARIN K-centre certificate for the Czech National Corpus has been renewed. The centre is specialized in corpus linguistics with the emphasis on empirical research of Czech.
Our colleagues from the Slovak National Corpus JÚĽŠ SAV in Bratislava released a brand new version of the CNC Mapka application adapted for working with Slovak dialects. Congratulations for their achievement!
InterCorp release 16ud was published. Text-wise the same as release 16, but with the UD annotation that is comparable across languages and also includes syntax. In addition, release 16ud features the metrics of syntactic complexity and lexical diversity.
In cooperation with ICL we updated a new corpus of contemporary Czech poetry (KSP). Compared to the previous version, a number of printed collections have been added, poems from web servers better filtered, and the corpus structure simplified.
If you need to find out how things look like in corpus data, you no longer need to look for a suitable application and learn to write a CQL query. You can simply ask the “Corpus Linguist” model in ChatGPT that will ask CNC for you.
On Monday, September 9, 2024, it is exactly 30 years since the Institute of the Czech National Corpus was founded at the Faculty of Arts. We have prepared several new corpora for the anniversary, so you really have a lot to look forward to!
We are releasing version 3 of the ORTOFON corpus that is the completion of the series. In addition to more material included and more corrections made to the transcription, version 3 is newly annotated according to the SYN2020 corpus standard.
An updated version of the KonText application is now available with new features, such as brand new keywords function and displaying translation equivalents in parallel corpora for user-selected words directly in the concordance.
Release 12 of the SYN corpus of contemporary written Czech was published at the end of 2023. As a result of inclusion of journalistic texts from 2022, its size has reached 5.17G words.
On 12th april 2022 prof. Martin Hilpert gave online lecture on: Life is too short for long words: Studying English clippings in language use and in the laboratory ( PDF)
On 14th and 16th May 2019, prof. George Mikros visited our Institute and gave two lectures on Predicting the author’s gender using computational stylistic methods (PDF) Stylometric analysis and machine learning methods (PDF)
On 20th March 2019, Prof. Achim Rabus visited our Institute and gave lectures on SpoCo: a bottom-up initiative to build Slavic spoken corpora Abstract In the talk, the SpoCo infrastructure for Slavic (and non-Slavic) spoken (and non-spoken) corpora is presented. I show how the platform evolved, discuss its functionality and give an outlook on its […]
On 12th March 2019, Dr. Maarten Janssen visited our Institute and gave lectures on TEITOK – a web-based platform for viewing, creating, and editing corpora Abstract In this talk I will give a general overview of TEITOK, an online system for making corpora available and searchable, but at the same time for editing them, annotating, and […]
On 27th and 28th November 2017, Dr. Michael Ramscar visited our Institute and gave two lectures on The discriminative nature of human communication The information structure of discriminative human communication systems Abstracts
On 26th and 27th October 2016, Prof. Stefan Th. Gries visited our Institute and gave two lectures on Corpus data and aspects of the mental lexicon from a cognitive-linguistic perspective: frequency, contingency, recency, and context What statistical methods have to offer to linguistics: three (differently complex) case studies of spelling, morphological change, and foreign language […]
On 11th and 12th October 2016, Prof. Rafał Ludwik Górski (Institute of the Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences) visited our Institute and gave two lectures on Translationese and stylometry; Historical linguistics and stylometry. Can the corpus tell us how to periodize the history of a language? Abstracts
On 3rd and 4th May 2016, Prof. Alan Partington (Università di Bologna) visited our Institute and gave two lectures on Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies (CADS): Good Practices and Potential Pitfalls; “Why are you English all so anti-European?” A corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) of “stay or leave?” arguments on the eve of the UK Referendum on withdrawal […]
On 11th and 12th April, Prof. Mark Davies (Brigham Young University) visited our Institute and gave two lectures on Corpus-based analyses of variation in English: Why both size and structure matter New from the BYU corpora: the NOW corpus and virtual corpora Abstracts
On 24th and 25th November Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham) visited our Institute and gave two lectures on Building onto the corpus-driven approach: a wider look on meaning Corpus linguistics and the meaning of lexical items: how to distinguish grief from mourning Abstracts
A study stay of four Ukrainian interpreting teachers from Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk took place at the Institute of Translation at CU FA from 7–11 April 2025.
The Faculty of Arts, Charles University, has prepared a facility for its PhD students where they can work on their dissertation projects. The room P002 dedicated to PhD students is located on the left on the ground floor of the main building.
The Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University (FTVS UK), cordially invites you to take part in the 11th run of Motions Brings Me Joy and Warmth (Hřeje mě pohyb). It will take place at the athletic stadium of the FTVS UK (Veleslavín, Prague, José Martího 31) on Tuesday, 15 April 2025, from 2:00 to 6:00 pm.
A seven-part documentary series, an insightful monograph full of fascinating case studies, an exhibition at the Kampa Museum, and even a feature film. This is Identita (or Identity), a project that highlights both the past history and present of Czech graphic design. It was created by design experts Filip Blažek and Linda Kudrnovská, graduates of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.
As a part of the HR Award initiative, Charles University is actively involved in promoting research and academic development through international partnerships. These activities encourage collaboration in research projects, the mobility of academics, and support for postdocs, which contributes to the development of research and education at CU.
Transition from hunting-gathering to food-production represented a global turning point in human history. New results from archaeological and anthropological research in the Middle Nile Valley show that this innovation was brought to the area by new human groups that arrived in the 6th and 5th millennia BC.
The journal is published by Helsinki University Press on behalf of the Department of Aesthetics at CU FA. The new issue released on 18 March 2025, includes four research papers and three critical notes.
Blended intensive programmes are one of the new Erasmus+ features that were introduced in 2021. The programmes combine virtual and physical mobility, enabling students and staff to develop new educational activities including digital skills improvement. The most active faculty in the BIP coordination is the Faculty of Arts, which has already organised four BIPs.
The faculty has responded to repeating suggestions from the academic community and has introduced three new pieces of equipment in faculty buildings. A new microwave is located on the second floor of the main building and a drinking fountain is on the ground floor. A ping pong table is located on the ground floor of the Sporck Palace.
