ELRA - ELRA-U-W 0132 : Latvian Corpus of Written Texts

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Catalog Reference : ELRA-U-W 0132

Latvian Corpus of Written Texts

This corpus of written Latvian contains approximately 20 million running words from different types of texts:
- Latvian classical literature (from the end of the 19th c / beginning of the 20th c),
- Latvian folklore and culture,
- Newspapers ("Rïgas Balss" 1994-1997).

It is being turned step by step into XML. Work is also going on to annotate the corpus with morpho-syntactic information in a semi-automatic way. In this perspective, a pilot morpho-syntactically annotated corpus was built in 2001. It contains 10,000 words of modern written Latvian from this corpus and was manually annotated.

In the framework of the ESF project competition, the corpus is also being enlarged and balanced.

The building of this large structured and annotated corpus is a basis for the development and improvement of tools for Latvian language processing, which in return makes it possible to enlarge and enrich the corpus more rapidly and efficiently.

Production

Creation date : 2000

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application Area : Research

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written corpus
Number of languages : Monolingual
Language(s) : Latvian
Annotation Coverage : Partial
Annotation Granularity : Word
Annotation level : Syntactic
Annotation Mode : Semi automatic
Annotation language : XML