Corpus SYN version 8
| Name | SYN version 8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Position | Number of tokens | 5 391 362 082 |
| Number of tokens without punctuation | 4 499 370 372 | |
| Number of word forms | 12 039 781 | |
| Number of lemmas | 8 684 133 | |
| Structures | Number of documents | 116 325 |
| Number of texts | 17 114 666 | |
| Number of sentences | 344 432 276 | |
| Other information | Referential | YES |
| Representative | NO (predominantly journalism) | |
| Publication year | 2019 | |
Every SYN corpus contains all the synchronic written corpora of the SYN series published up until the time of the given version's publication. The corpus SYN version 8 therefore contains the corpora SYN2000, SYN2005, SYN2006PUB, SYN2009PUB, SYN2010,SYN2013PUB and SYN2015; additionally, it contains a journalistic component predominantly from the years 2010–2017 (already included into SYN version 4, SYN version 5, SYN version 6 and SYN version 7) and as yet unpublished journalistic texts from 2018 in yearly volume around 150 mil. words.
Because all of these corpora are disjunctive (i.e. they do not contain the same texts), the total size of the SYN version 8 is given by their sum, which makes 4.5 billion words (tokens without punctuation). The SYN corpus is not representative; the dominant component is journalism, which is the result of the predominance of journalistic corpora SYN2006PUB, SYN2009PUB, SYN2013PUB and the journalistic component from the years 2010–2018.
The SYN version 8 corpus is referential, and will remain accessible to users even after newer versions have been published. It is however necessary to keep in mind that the linguistic information will become outdated, as a natural result of the referential nature of the corpus. Individual versions of the corpus SYN will continue to be published regularly every year with the addition of current journalistic data, and every new addition will be given the attribute value <doc syn> equal to the version of the SYN corpus in which the given text first appeared; for example a subcorpus corresponding to the above mentioned (as yet unpublished) journalistic component can be created from the SYN version 8 with the help of the condition syn="v8".
Composition of the corpus SYN version 8
| Referential written language corpora (synchronic and general) ordered by date of creation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| corpus | size (words) | lemmatization | morphological tags | publication year | corpus description |
| SYN2015 | 100M | ✓ | ✓ | 2015 | representative corpus, mainly texts from the years 2010–2014 |
| SYN2013PUB | 935M | ✓ | ✓ | 2013 | corpus of journalistic texts from the years 2005–2009 |
| SYN2010 | 100M | ✓ | ✓ | 2010 | representative corpus, mainly texts from the years 2005–2009 |
| SYN2009PUB | 700M | ✓ | ✓ | 2010 | corpus of journalistic texts from the years 1995–2007 |
| SYN2006PUB | 300M | ✓ | ✓ | 2006 | corpus of journalistic texts from the years 1989–2004 |
| SYN2005 | 100M | ✓ | ✓ | 2005 | representative corpus, mainly texts from the years 2000–2004 |
| SYN2000 | 100M | ✓ | ✓ | 2000 | representative corpus, mainly texts from the years 1990–1999 |
Journalism in SYN version 8
The composition of the journalistic part of the corpus SYN version 8 covers the production of most of the national daily newspapers (Mladá fronta DNES, Lidové noviny, Právo, Hospodářské noviny, Blesk, Sport), regional daily newspapers (chiefly Deníky Bohemia and Moravia published by Vltava Labe Media) and non-specialized magazines (Reflex, Respekt, Týden) from the years 1998–2018; the total number of journalistic titles is almost 200. The following graphs show the composition of the SYN corpus based on the main text types over the years and offer a closer look at the composition of the journalistic section.
Structure and annotation of SYN version 8
SYN v8 is identical to its predecessors (version 7, version 6, version 5 and version 4) as regards its structure and annotation of texts, i.e. it is based on the hierarchy of structural tags and their attributes (e.g. <opus name> was replaced by <doc title>), and also on the classification of texts from SYN2015, with these two exceptions:
- introducing the additional attribute
<doc syn>for the creation of subcorpora corresponding to the original reference corpora; - replacing syntactic annotation in the corpus SYN2015 with a pilot version of phraseme annotation.
How to cite SYN version 8
Křen, M. – Cvrček, V. – Čapka, T. – Čermáková, A. – Hnátková, M. – Chlumská, L. – Jelínek, T. – Kováříková, D. – Petkevič, V. – Procházka, P. – Skoumalová, H. – Škrabal, M. – Truneček, P. – Vondřička, P. – Zasina, A.: Corpus SYN, version 8 from 12. 12. 2019. Ústav Českého národního korpusu FF UK, Praha 2019. Available online: http://www.korpus.cz.
Hnátková, M. – Křen, M. – Procházka, P. – Skoumalová, H. (2014): The SYN-series corpora of written Czech. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), 160–164. Reykjavík: ELRA. ISBN 978-2-9517408-8-4.
— Michal Křen, Olga Richterová, Michal Škrabal
Related links
SYN • SYN version 5 • SYN version 4 • SYN version 3 • SYN2000 • SYN2005 • SYN2006PUB • SYN2009PUB • SYN2010 • SYN2013PUB • SYN2015
