InterCorp: Version history

Published 12 October 2023

• The core now contains all texts planned and approved for 2022 and submitted by the deadline for this version
• The number of words in all languages and text types has tripled from 1 798 million to 5 290 million
• This is mainly due to the update of the Subtitles package, which now contains 4 001 million words
• 20 new languages were added to Subtitles and thus to the corpus as a whole - the corpus now contains 62 languages (including Czech)
• The number of words in all languages except Czech is 4 893 million, of which 387 million represents the core and 4 506 million the collections
• The total number of words in Czech texts is 398 million, including 125 million core and 273 million collection
• Information about the corpus

Published 11 November 2022

• Total number of word forms in foreign language texts: 1 588 mil., including 362 mil. core and 1 226 mil. collections
• Total number of word forms in Czech texts: 210 mil., including 120 mil. core and 90 mil. collections
• The Project Syndicate collection was extended by texts published in 2019–2021; Arabic and Chinese texts were included for the first time
• Instead of a national tagger for Norwegian, the UDPipe tagger is used starting this release, including tokenization and tagset according to the Universal Dependencies standard (same as for Belarusian and Ukrainian)
• Information about the corpus

Published 31 January 2022

• Total number of word forms in foreign language texts: 1 572 mil., including 349 mil. core and 1 223 mil. collections
• Total number of word forms in Czech texts: 207 mil., including 118 mil. core and 90 mil. collections
• Upper Sorbian (abbreviated as hs) was added as a new language.
• Information about the corpus

Published 22 December 2021

Differences between releases 13 and 13ud

Published 1 November 2020

• Total number of word forms in foreign language texts: 1,550 mil., including 327 mil. core and 1,223 mil. collections
• Total number of word forms in Czech texts: 203 mil., including 113 mil. core and 90 mil. collections
• Chinese is now represented also in the Core part
• The ReLDI tagger is now used also for tagging Slovene
• Information about the corpus

Published 12 December 2019

• Total number of word forms in foreign language texts: 1,534 mil., including 311 mil. core and 1,223 mil. collections
• Total number of word forms in Czech texts: 200 mil., including 111 mil. core and 90 mil. collections
• New language: Chinese (only in the collections)
• Information about the corpus

Published 19 October 2018

• Total number of word forms in foreign language texts: 1,508 mil., including 283 mil. core and 1,225 mil. collections
• Total number of word forms in Czech texts: 196 mil., including 107 mil. core and 89 mil. collections
• Japanese is now represented also in the Core
• Newly tagged and lemmatized languages: Belarusian, Japanese, Ukrainian
• Information about the corpus

Published 1 December 2017

• Total number of word forms in foreign language texts: 1,483 mil., including 258 mil. core and 1,225 mil. collections
• Total number of word forms in Czech texts: 192 mil., including 102 mil. core and 89 mil. collections
• A new collection: translations of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in 18 languages
• Update of the Project Syndicate collection by new texts published in the previous two years
• More reliable linguistic annotation for many languages (taggers process text without formatting and other markup)
• Removing texts in languages other than specified from the Acquis collection
• Catalan is now annotated with tags and lemmas
• Bulgarian and Dutch is now annotated also with lemmas
• Hungarian is now tagged by RFTagger (formerly by HunPOS)
• For technical issues with the tagger, Lithuanian is not annotated with tags and lemmas; it was not annotated starting with release 7 – we apologise about the misleading info in the previous releases
• Information about the corpus

Search Interface:

• Concordances can now be selected and labelled
• A subcorpus for a language can now be built from parts aligned with a set of specified languages
• Release 2 of treq (the database of equivalents) now offers English in addition to Czech as the second language, search of multi-word expressions and queries using regular expressions

Published 9 September 2016

Data:

• Total number of word forms in foreign language texts: 1460 mil., including 232 mil. core and 1229 mil. collections
• Total number of word forms in Czech texts: 187 mil., including 97 mil. core and 90 mil. collections
• A new language: Romani
• Morphological tags and lemmas are now available also in Croatian, Serbian and Latvian
• Serbian Cyrillic texts were converted into Latin alphabet
• A more balanced share of languages and text types due to a newly introduced acquisition planning
• Names of authors and translators were unified within a single language
• Information about the corpus

Search Interface:

• A number of minor improvements and bug fixes
• Description of the tagset for a given language is available from KonText interface

published 4.6.2015

Data:

• Total number of tokens in foreign language texts: 1423 mil., including 194 mil. core and 1229 mil. collections
• Total number of tokens in Czech texts: 174 mil., including 84 mil. core and 89 mil. collections
• Collections Project Syndicate and PressEurop/VoxEurop have been extended by new texts published in 2013–2014
• Metadata on hundreds of texts from the core have been corrected and missing items added.
• Information about the corpus

Search Interface:

• The Park and NoSketch Engine search interfaces are no longer available. Please use KonText instead.
• KonText is continuously developed, featuring new options, such as flagging selected concordances for further processing.

published 19.12.2014

Data:

• Total number of tokens in foreign language texts: 1390 mil., including 173 mil. core and 1217 mil. collections
• Total number of tokens in Czech texts: 165 mil., including 77 mil. core and 85 mil. collections
• Number of foreign languages: 38 – new: Albanian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Japanese, Malay, Turkish and Vietnamese
• An additional new collection: film subtitles from the Open Subtitles database
• Czech texts are now tagged in the same way as other Czech texts in the Czech National Corpus, i.e. including verbal aspect at position 16 and without unspecific codes, e.g. Y or Z at position 3.
• Morphological tags and lemmas are now available also in Finnish, Icelandic and Swedish texts
• German texts are now tagged by a better tool, resulting in a more reliable and detailed annotation. The tagset remains the same.
• Incorrect alignments of some texts from the ASPAC corpus have been emended.
• Some collections (Syndicate, Presseurop and Europarl) have received additional data, missing in the original source, such as language of the original and author.
• Information about the corpus

Search Interface:

• In addition to Park and NoSketch Engine, KonText, a new search interface, is now available. Please note that Park and NoSketch Engine will probably be discontinued by the end of March 2015.
• Starting from release 7, KonText and NoSketch Engine now support searching in previous releases of InterCorp.
• While filtering texts, i.e., when specifying a query according to meta-information or creating a subcorpus, KonText now shows the extent of the selection by listing the selected titles; just click on the “highlight selection structure” button to see the list in the “div.title” column
• In KonText, concordance lines are shuffled by default. Search results can be displayed faster with default shuffling switched off in the menu: View – General concordance view options

published 8.4.2013

Data:

• number of words in foreign language texts: 138,779,000 - core, 728,508,000 - collections
• number of foreign languages: 31 – new: Arabic, Catalan, Hindi, Ukrainian
• new fiction texts from ASPAC – Amsterdam Slavic Parallel Aligned Corpus – with special thanks to Adrian Barentsen
• new collection of texts from the EuroParl corpus (proceedings of the European Parliament)
• Syndicate a Presseurop extended by texts from the two past years
• Information about the corpus

Search interface:

• a new search interface: NoSketch Engine in addition to Park
• Park: an option to search in the previous version of the corpus

published 14.6.2012

Data:

• separation of core texts and collections texts
• number of words in foreign language texts: 91 529 000 core, 451 112 000 in collections
• number of foreign language texts: 1 287 + Syndicate, Presseurop and Acquis
• number of foreign languages: 27
• number of tagged / lemmatized foreign languages: 17 / 14
• inclusion of automatically aligned texts from Acquis Communautaire
• Information about corpus

Park:

• possibility to filter texts based on bibliografical information
• separation of core texts and collections texts
• possibility to create a random sample of concordances
• better interface languages support

published 19.9.2011

Data:

• number of words in foreign language texts: 92 290 000 (including Syndicate and Presseurop)
• number of foreign language texts: 1 045 + Syndicate and Presseurop
• number of foreign languages: 22
• number of tagged / lemmatized foreign languages: 13 / 10
• inclusion of automatically aligned texts from Presseurop
• inclusion of another group of texts from Project Syndicate
• addition of another structural attributes (origyear, srclang, txtype)
• Information about corpus

Park: unchanged

published 18.5.2011

Data: unchanged

Park:

• multi-level filtering of query results
• improved cookies support
• another export format

published 21.2.2011

Data:

• number of words in foreign language texts: 72 280 000 (including Syndicate)
• number of foreign language texts: 943 + Syndicate
• number of foreign languages: 22
• number of tagged / lemmatized foreign languages: 13 / 10
• implementation of the stand-off alignment
• Information about corpus

Park:

• one-level filtering of query results
• possibility to display selected result page
• implementation of the stand-off alignment

published 16.10.2009

Data:

• number of words in foreign language texts: 49 293 000 (including Syndicate)
• number of foreign language texts: 572 + Syndicate
• number of foreign languages: 21
• number of tagged / lemmatized foreign languages: 10 / 7
• inclusion of automatically aligned texts from Project Syndicate

Corpus access:

• monolingual corpora of individual languages made accessible next to Park

published 29.4.2009

Data:

• number of words in foreign language texts: 34 464 000
• number of foreign language texts: 505
• number of foreign languages: 20
• number of tagged / lemmatized foreign languages: 10 / 7
• lemmatization and morphological tagging of some languages

Park:

• displaying subcorpus size

published 19.11.2008

Data:

• number of words in foreign language texts: 25 mil.
• number of foreign languages: 19
• number of tagged / lemmatized foreign languages: 0 / 0

Park:

• first stable version

Last update: 14 January 2022