At the end of last year, the thirtieth and final volume of the Studies in Corpus Linguistics series was published. It brings a diverse range of empirically based contributions using the Czech National Corpus for linguistic research.
The programme for the Theoretical and Methodological Seminar has been published. It will take place in room P104 in the main building on Wednesday from 14:10 to 15:40. The seminar will also be broadcast online.
Release 14 of the SYN corpus of contemporary written Czech was published. As a result of inclusion of journalistic texts from 2024, its size has reached almost 5.5G words. New in version 14 is a completely reworked annotation of multi-word units.
We have released SYN2025, a new synchronic representative corpus. It is the sixth continuation of the series of reference corpora of printed Czech, with its design and annotation (including syntax) corresponding in particular to the SYN2020 corpus.
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 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
We invite you to a public lecture by Michele Mioni from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, whose research explores the political and intellectual foundations of the “European Social Model”, its role in shaping post-1989 visions of European integration, and the tensions between welfare, globalisation, and the EU project.
The discussion will offer insights into what to expect from future U.S.-Mexico relations and the future of the Cuban regime. It will also focus on identifying the root causes of chronic instability in Peru and assess how Argentina is currently faring under President Javier Milei.
CenMAS will connect research across the humanities and social sciences and create a platform to study conflicts, crises, and transformations in regions that have traditionally been the focus of CU Arts: Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa.
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites everyone interested to a discussion panel and a poetry reading with three acclaimed poets based in Scotland: Annie Brechin, Rob A. Mackenzie, and Medha Singh.
