The SYN-series corpora of written Czech

Milena Hnátková, Michal Křen, Pavel Procházka, Hana Skoumalová


Abstract
The paper overviews the SYN series of synchronic corpora of written Czech compiled within the framework of the Czech National Corpus project. It describes their design and processing with a focus on the annotation, i.e. lemmatization and morphological tagging. The paper also introduces SYN2013PUB, a new 935-million newspaper corpus of Czech published in 2013 as the most recent addition to the SYN series before planned revision of its architecture. SYN2013PUB can be seen as a completion of the series in terms of titles and publication dates of major Czech newspapers that are now covered by complete volumes in comparable proportions. All SYN-series corpora can be characterized as traditional, with emphasis on cleared copyright issues, well-defined composition, reliable metadata and high-quality data processing; their overall size currently exceeds 2.2 billion running words.
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L14-1267
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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160–164
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/294_Paper.pdf
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Milena Hnátková, Michal Křen, Pavel Procházka, and Hana Skoumalová. 2014. The SYN-series corpora of written Czech. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 160–164, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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The SYN-series corpora of written Czech (Hnátková et al., LREC 2014)
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