Re: Corpora: Seeking Polish Corpus / Szukam Polski(ego?) Narodowy Korpus

Przemyslaw Kaszubski (przemka@main.amu.edu.pl)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:13:11 CET

Hi,

Yes - Polskiego would've been correct, though I'm not sure Polski
Korpus Narodowy sounds right - because "narodowy' sounds too
pompous to me.. I would simply prefer Korpus Jezyka Polskiego,
or Narodowy Korpus Jezyka Polskiego, if you insist (with a "hook"
under the "e" in Jezyka, of course).

Having said this, I must say yes again, afterTadeusz Piotrowski,
that there is no such corpus for Polish yet. I do only small corpus
work and my focus is English learner corpora so I've never
researched Polish extensively, relying on opportunistic materials
and colleagues who contributed the genre(s) I wanted for
comparison. For a beginning learner, the Net is the only option, I'm
afraid. Try

http://www.flob.net/Media_i_Informacje/Prasa/Gazety_codzienne_i_
dodatki/

to find what daily papers are available. The same site one level up
will give other options for various magazine types.

Hope you'll find this helpful nevertheless.

Przemek Kaszubski

Date sent: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 01:49:50 +0000
To: corpora@hd.uib.no
From: F <fdavidson@imaris.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Corpora: Seeking Polish Corpus / Szukam Polski(ego?) Narodowy Korpus

> Dear all,
> I have recently subscribed to this list. I am not involved
> professionally in linguisics.
>
> I am looking for current, or fairly recent Corpora of the Polish
> language to assist in learning, by focusing my learning effort in
> everyday language rather than what lecturers think everyday language
> should be. A subset of the Polish National Corpus would do as I don't
> expect my Polish vocabulary to exceed a few thousand words in the near
> future. Also are there any (freeware or shareware) concordancers and
> taggers I can get on the net to analyse Polish text?
>
> The Collins Polish/English/Polish Dictionary I a using says it uses
> the 'Bank of English' Corpus as the basis for word inclusion. It
> doesn't say which Polish one it uses. I have a shareware concordancer
> (Wordsmith) but I don't know if it works yet with Polish.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Frank Davidson
>

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