Notice Board

We have re­leased ver­sion 2.0 of the Map­ka ap­pli­ca­tion for work­ing with spo­ken and di­alec­tal cor­po­ra. It fea­tures en­hanced de­sign, more in­tu­itive in­ter­face and sig­nif­i­cant­ly en­riched con­tent: sam­ples from spo­ken cor­po­ra and overviews of di­alec­tal fea­tures.

Our colleagues have been successful in the TA CR SIGMA Programme and got funding for projects History of Czech in corpus continuum (grant holder dr. Martin Stluka) and Multiword units for digital education (grant holder dr. Marie Kopřivová).

We are re­leas­ing To­tali­ta, a di­achron­ic cor­pus of writ­ten Czech from the com­mu­nist regime pe­ri­od (1948–1989). The cor­pus served as a ma­te­r­i­al base for the dic­tio­nary pub­lished in 2010.

To­geth­er with our col­leagues from JÚĽŠ, we have launched the Czechoslo­vak Word of the Week se­ries. A new word ap­pears every Mon­day morn­ing, the columns are then reprint­ed in Fri­day edi­tions of both Czech Deník N and Slo­vak Den­ník N.

An up­date of Treq, the on­line tool for look­ing up trans­la­tion equiv­a­lents, is out! Its data­base has been up­dat­ed to re­lease 15 of the In­ter­Corp par­al­lel cor­pus.

The sec­ond gen­er­a­tion of ON­LINE cor­po­ra was pub­lished. As a con­tin­u­a­tion of the first gen­er­a­tion and thanks to its dai­ly up­dates, ON­LINE2 is a per­fect source of da­ta to ex­am­ine cur­rent trends in pub­lic dis­course.

We have made pub­licly avail­able APIs for query­ing Kon­Text and Treq. The num­ber of ap­pli­ca­tions with open API will grow in the fu­ture.

In co­op­er­a­tion with ICL we cre­at­ed a new cor­pus of con­tem­po­rary Czech po­et­ry (KSP). It con­tains po­ems pub­lished in 1990–2020 ei­ther in print or on web lit­er­ary fo­rums. Sized 35 mil. words, KSP ranks among the largest cor­po­ra of its kind in the world.

We are pleased to announce that our dear colleague Václav Cvrček has been appointed Professor of Czech Language. Congratulations!

SYN re­lease 10 was pub­lished as an­oth­er up­date of the SYN cor­pus of con­tem­po­rary writ­ten Czech. With jour­nal­is­tic texts from 2020, its size reached al­most 4.9 bil­lion words.