The Croatian Language Corpus (CLC) ( hr, Hrvatski jezični korpus, HJK) is a

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of Croatian compiled at the

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( IHJJ).

Background

The CLC was initially funded as a sub-project of the research program ''Riznica'' (''Croatian Language Repository'') by the Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports of the Republic of Croatia ( MZOŠ) (project no. 0212010) from May 2005. In a second development phase, since 2007, the further extension and development of the CLC was embedded within the research program ''The Croatian Language Repository'' (CLR) that was granted by the MZOŠ (cf. Ćavar and Brozović Rončević, 2012). Being a research program (PI Dunja Brozović Rončević) with numerous subsumed independent research projects that make use of the CLC, the corpus is mainly developed as a by-product of those research projects within the CLR. Currently Dunja Brozović Rončević and

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are in charge of the corpus development.

Goals

One of the main goals of the CLC project is to create a publicly available Croatian

that is annotated on multiple levels, i.e. lemmatized, morphologically segmented and morpho-syntactically annotated,

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ally transcribed and syllabified, and syntactically parsed. While the current version of the

provides resources from the Croatian language standard, several

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from different development phases of Croatian are created as well, including the digitizations of manuscripts and Croatian dictionaries.

Format and Availability

From the outset, the collected and digitized texts in the CLC were annotated using the

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( TEI) P5

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standard. Currently approx. 90 mil. tokens are available in the TEI P5

format. The

can be accessed online via the Philologic interface (see The ARTFL Project, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,

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). It is virtualized into various sub-corpora, and individual or specific definitions of sub-corpora can be provided on demand.

Content

The CLC is assembled from selected text of Croatian, covering various functional domains and genres. It includes literature and other written sources from the period of the beginning of the final shaping of the standardization of Croatian, i.e. from the second half of the 19th century on. The CLC consists of: * fundamental Croatian literature (e.g. novels, short stories, drama, poetry) * non-fiction * scientific publications from various domains and University textbooks * school books * translated literature from outstanding Croatian translators * online journals and newspapers * books from the pre-standardization period of Croatian that are adapted to nowadays standard Croatian

Cooperation

The realization of the CLC was made possible in cooperation with: * Školska knjiga d.d. * Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) * Stoljeća hrvatske književnosti,

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References

External links

Croatian Language Corpus (CLC) website and Philologic interface
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''Croatian National Corpus''
another Croatian corpus by th
Institute of Linguistics
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