Language Corpora

CLARIN is a European research network that archives language data and develops and provides tools for processing them in the humanities and social sciences research.

CLARIN

The CLARIN language resources can be explored via the individual repositories of the institutions / centers participating in the network. The following repositories are available to researchers on Eastern Europe:

Center of Estonian Language Resources (CELR) 

CLARIN.SI

Corpora Collection Leipzig 

LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ

The CLARIN language data of the institutions / centers participating in the network can be explored via a common catalog, the Virtual Language Observatory.

CLARIN Virtual Language Observatory

The CLARIN Resource Families provide a user-friendly overview per data type of the available language resources in the CLARIN infrastructure.

CLARIN Resource Families

The CLARIN institutions / centres offer a wide variety of applications to discover, explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine language data.

CLARIN Tools

The Language Resource Switchboard can assist with finding the right language tool for processing data. 

Language Resource Switchboard

With the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Linguistics Information Service (FID Linguistik) grants licences for individual corpora to researchers within Germany. Among others, corpora for the following languages are offered: Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Croatian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian.

Licences for corpora

List of corpora

Text+ is a consortium of the nationwide initiative to establish a national research data infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur, NFDI). It focuses on the long-term preservation of text- and language-based research data and on enabling their broad use in science.

Text+

Korpusi Nacional i Gjuhës Shqipe (Albanian National Corpus)

CLARIN Estonia (Eesti Keeleressursside Keskus / Center of Estonian Language Resources) 

Eesti keele spontaanse kõne foneetiline korpus (Phonetic Corpus of Estonian Spontaneous Speech)

Murdekorpus – Eesti murrete korpus (Estonian dialects corpus)

Vana kirjakeele korpus (Corpus of the old written language)

Other corpora 

clarin:el

Corpus of Modern Greek 

Corpus of Spoken Greek

Hellenic National Corpus of Greek Language (HNC)

Macedonia (newspaper corpus)

Ta Nea (newspaper corpus)

CLARIN-LV 

Nacionālā korpusu kolekcija (NKK) (Latvian National Corpora Collection) 

CLARIN-LT 

Skaitmeninių išteklių ir tarpdisciplininių tyrimų institutas (SITTI) (Institute of Digital Resources and Interdisciplinary Research)

The Specialized Information Service Romance Studies (FID Romanistik) provides an index of Romanian corpora and databases.

Romanian corpora and databases

HunCLARIN 

Magyar Nemzeti Helynévtár (Hungarian National Toponym Registry)

Nemzeti Korpuszportál (National Corpus Gateway)

Történeti magánéleti korpusz (Historical corpus of private life)

Történeti magyar családnévatlasz (Atlas of historical surnames in Hungary)

The index curated by the Specialized Information Service for Finno-Ugric / Uralic Languages, Literatures and Cultures contains language corpora of individual Uralic languages represented in Siberia or in the Volga-Kama area and adjacent regions, among others.

Uralic Language Corpora

Curated by the Chair of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Tübingen (Prof. Dr. Tilman Berger), the index contains corpora on Eastern, Western and Southern Slavic languages.

Slavic corpora  

The Subject Gateway Slavistics (Slavistics Guide) of the Specialized Information Service Slavonic Studies lists nearly 70 national language and text corpora on Slavic languages

Slavistics Guide