Notice Board

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.

Congratulations to our colleagues for winning standard projects of the GAČR (The Czech Science Foundation): Jiří Milička succeeded with the grant Large language models through the prism of corpus linguistics and Hana Skoumalová’s team will be working on the project Czech phraseology and changes in its use in temporal and genre contexts.

CNC pub­lished an OnomOs di­achron­ic cor­pus com­piled by the re­searchers from De­part­ment of Czech lan­guage, Fac­ul­ty of Arts, Uni­ver­si­ty of Os­tra­va. It is com­posed of se­lect­ed is­sues of the (Rudé) Prá­vo news­pa­per and in­cludes named en­ti­ty an­no­ta­tion.

We have re­leased a new ver­sion of the KWords app. You can now an­a­lyze texts in more than 30 lan­guages and use lemma­ti­za­tion and tag­ging (key­morph analy­sis) to iden­ti­fy promi­nent units. The ap­pli­ca­tion can al­so be ac­cessed via an API.

Thanks to the sup­port of TA ČR, we have been able to work on the HiČKoK project – His­to­ry of Czech in the cor­pus con­tin­u­um since Sep­tem­ber. In co­op­er­a­tion with the Czech Lan­guage In­sti­tute, the Na­tion­al Li­brary and the IFAL MFF UK, we will cre­ate a uni­form­ly an­no­tat­ed cor­pus that will cov­er 8 cen­turies of […]

Re­lease 16 of the In­ter­Corp par­al­lel cor­pus has been pub­lished. Thanks to the up­dat­ed Open­Sub­ti­tles pack­age, the cor­pus has al­most tripled in size with 20 new lan­guages. An overview of all the en­hance­ments can be found in the ver­sion his­to­ry.

We have re­leased a new ver­sion of the di­achron­ic cor­pus of Low­er Sor­bian pre­pared by the Cot­tbus-Chóśe­buz branch of the Sor­bian In­sti­tute. The new ver­sion is not on­ly larg­er, but it al­so in­cludes nor­mal­i­sa­tion and lem­ma­ti­sa­tion of the texts.