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.

In­ter­Corp re­lease 13ud was pub­lished. It con­tains the same texts as re­lease 13, the on­ly dif­fer­ence is in its an­no­ta­tion that con­forms to the Uni­ver­sal De­pen­den­cies stan­dard. The UD an­no­ta­tion is com­pa­ra­ble across lan­guages and it al­so in­cludes syn­tax.

SYN re­lease 9 was pub­lished as an­oth­er up­date of the SYN cor­pus of con­tem­po­rary writ­ten Czech. With jour­nal­is­tic texts from 2019, its size ex­ceed­ed 4.7 bil­lion words. SYN re­lease 10 with da­ta from 2020 will be avail­able at the be­gin­ning of next year.

The sixth edi­tion of the Trans­la­tion in Tran­si­tion con­fer­ence will take place in Prague in Sep­tem­ber 2022. Ab­stract sub­mis­sion is now open, the dead­line is 14 Feb 2022. De­tails are avail­able in the sec­ond call for pa­pers at the con­fer­ence web.

An EU-fund­ed CLS IN­FRA project in­vites ap­pli­ca­tions for fel­low­ships that are aimed to help re­searchers work­ing in the area of com­pu­ta­tion­al lit­er­ary stud­ies to get ac­cess to and sup­port in one of the in­sti­tu­tions in­volved (in­clud­ing CNC).

We have re­leased a new ver­sion of the Map­ka ap­pli­ca­tion for work­ing with spo­ken and di­alec­tal cor­po­ra. The new fea­tures in­clude ad­di­tion­al re­gion­al his­tor­i­cal di­vi­sion and the pos­si­bil­i­ty to save one’s own map lay­er with user-de­fined mark­ers.

We are proud to re­lease Parl­corp, a cor­pus of Czech Par­lia­men­tary Speech­es from pe­ri­od 1993-2021 com­piled by M. & M. Berro­cal.

We are proud to re­lease CODIT, a host­ed di­achron­ic cor­pus of Ital­ian com­piled by Maria Sil­via Miche­li. CODIT maps six main text reg­is­ters and cov­ers the pe­ri­od from the 13th cen­tu­ry un­til 1947.

A new re­lease of the NET cor­pus of Czech se­mi-of­fi­cial in­ter­net com­mu­ni­ca­tion has been pub­lished. In its re­lease 2, it grew more than three times in size and it now cov­ers in­ter­net dis­cus­sions and blogs from 120+ do­mains.