Corpus SYN2000

The corpus SYN2000 contains 100 million words and is composed of complete texts only. The criteria for selecting texts were based on researches of written language: they were to cover the widest possible genre stratification of the Czech language. TheSYN2000 is a synchronic corpus, which means that it covers contemporary Czech. Therefore it contains primarily texts that were created in 1990-1999. However, also important works of Czech literature were included in the corpus (i.e., Karel Čapek's Krakatit or Josef Škvorecký's Zbabělci (The Cowards)). As to older texts, there has been a rule that authors had to be born after 1880 for the text to be included in this corpus.

The SYN2000 corpus is lemmatised and morphologically tagged. That means that for each word (that is the occurrence of the word in the text) its morphological tag, which shows its grammatical categories (the part of speech, number, case etc.) and so-called lemma, which is the basic form of the word (for instance, in case of nouns, it is the nominative singular, for verbs it is the infinitive) can be viewed. Besides these, you can view the code, which identifies the text, in which the searched word occurred.

• showing the searched word in a wider context,
• searching sequences of several words,
• searching according to the morphological tags and basic word forms,
• classification of concordance lines,
• showing information about the origin and text type in which the searched word occurred,
• saving marked concordance lines to the local disk,
• statistical functions,
• creating sub-corpora.

Structure of the SYN2000 corpus