Anna Čermáková
2016
SYN2015: Representative Corpus of Contemporary Written Czech
Michal Křen
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Václav Cvrček
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Tomáš Čapka
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Anna Čermáková
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Milena Hnátková
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Lucie Chlumská
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Tomáš Jelínek
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Dominika Kováříková
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Vladimír Petkevič
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Pavel Procházka
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Hana Skoumalová
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Michal Škrabal
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Petr Truneček
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Pavel Vondřička
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Adrian Jan Zasina
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
The paper concentrates on the design, composition and annotation of SYN2015, a new 100-million representative corpus of contemporary written Czech. SYN2015 is a sequel of the representative corpora of the SYN series that can be described as traditional (as opposed to the web-crawled corpora), featuring cleared copyright issues, well-defined composition, reliability of annotation and high-quality text processing. At the same time, SYN2015 is designed as a reflection of the variety of written Czech text production with necessary methodological and technological enhancements that include a detailed bibliographic annotation and text classification based on an updated scheme. The corpus has been produced using a completely rebuilt text processing toolchain called SynKorp. SYN2015 is lemmatized, morphologically and syntactically annotated with state-of-the-art tools. It has been published within the framework of the Czech National Corpus and it is available via the standard corpus query interface KonText at http://kontext.korpus.cz as well as a dataset in shuffled format.