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.
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.
Release 14 of the InterCorp parallel corpus has been published at the end of January. An overview of all the enhancements can be found in the version history at the CNC wiki.
The DIALEKT corpus has more than doubled in size to 223 thousand words in its newly published release 2. It is complemented by the Mapka application which has gained new features, e.g. downloadable custom map layers with user-defined points.
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
Every June, Pride Month draws attention to the rights and culture of sexual minorities and the ongoing discrimination and homophobia against LGBTQ+ people. This year, CU FA joins the event with a series of lectures and discussion sessions aimed not only at raising awareness of LGBTQ+ but also at the history, literature, philosophy, and other related fields.
The scholarships enable PhD students and young researchers to spend part of their studies at prestigious universities in the United Kingdom. This exceptional support helps to connect young humanities scholars with world-class institutions.
Anonymous electronic evaluation of courses takes place from 15 to 28 May. The feedback improves the quality of your studies and of your fellow students’ studies.
A new monograph <i>Little Berlin in Big Prague</i> was published by Dr Lenka Kerdová, an artist, academic researcher and history of visual art graduate from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. The book is based on reseach from her PhD dissertation examining Prague architecture during the interwar period, specifically buildings designed by German-speaking architects.
Laurence Boone delivered her speech on 27 April 2023 in the Patriotic Hall of Carolinum, where she was greeted by the Vice-Rector of CU, Prof. Voldřichová Beránková, Dr. Zora Hesová from the Department of Political Science at CU FA, and Jan Kolínský from the student society POLIS.
Campus France in the Czech Republic organizes a meeting on Thursday, 4 May 2023, at 4 pm in room P104 in the main building of CU FA to present the possibilities of studies and internships in France. The interactive session will be held in English.
The Academy has named the Egyptologist and archaeologist from the Czech Institute of Egyptology at CU FA on 19 April 2023. He has become one of more than 40 International Honorary Members from 23 countries.
Charles Games has launched Beecarbonize, a new educational game about the climate crisis. “Through the game you explore the new technologies, protect nature and modernise industry to reduce carbon emissions,” says developer Ondřej Trhoň who is currently a teacher of the study programme New Media Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.
There will be no classes or other activities on this day. All students and faculty staff have a day off. Faculty buildings will be closed.
