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.
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 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.
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
The conference “Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy: Philosophical Encounters” will be held on 16–18 September 2024 at the main building of CU FA. The co-organisers are the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Centre at CU, the Department of Sinology at CU FA, the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at CU FA.
As part of the HR Excellence in Research initiative, Charles University is continuously striving to improve working conditions for its employees and foster greater job satisfaction. The university believes that only satisfied employees can deliver the best performance.
This year, Charles University is defending the prestigious HR Award certificate and one of the evaluated criteria is ethics. As part of creating an inclusive environment, the university adopted its first Equal Opportunities Plan to create an inclusive environment, created the position of CU ombudsman and established the CU Equal Opportunities Board.
The symposium within the OP JAK CoRe project titled “Preaching and Conflict: 24th International Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium” took place on 11–16 July 2024 in Prague. The conference was co-organized by Prof Lucie Doležalová from the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies at CU FA and Dr Pavel Soukup from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the CAS
Faculty of Arts, Charles University (CU FA), was awarded a grant for a prestigious ERA-AREAS project from the Horizon Europe programme (ERA Chair scheme). In collaboration with Prof Mariana Llanos from the German Institute of Global and Area Studies, the project team will carry out research of contemporary critical phenomena in non-European regions over the next five years.
During July and August, the buildings on Jan Palach Square 1/2 and in Hybernská 3 are closing at 7:30 pm.
It had been five years since CU received the prestigious award “HR Excellence in Research” from the European Commission. This autumn, a team of international evaluators will come to CU, and the university will need to demonstrate that it has met its obligations and that it intends to continue making improvements in the HR area and in caring for its employees.
On 13 June 2024, the President of the Czech Republic and the Minister of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic appointed professor psychologist Filip Smolík, Italianist Pavel Štichauer, and Slavist Alla Arkhanhelska.
What can contemporary readers find in Franz Kafka's work and do any unanswered questions remain? The matter is one of continuing importance for Prof Marek Nekula, who has been studying Kafka's work since the early 1990s, when he worked at CU FA. Today he lectures at the University of Regensburg, where he heads the Bohemicum Center for Czech Studies.
