The Tekstaro de Esperanto (''Corpus of Esperanto'') is a

text corpus In linguistics, a corpus (plural ''corpora'') or text corpus is a language resource consisting of a large and structured set of texts (nowadays usually electronically stored and processed). In corpus linguistics, they are used to do statistical a ...

of the

Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...

language, a large collection of very diverse texts for linguistic research on Esperanto. , the corpus has texts with a total of 5,177,208 words.

History

In 2002 the

Esperantic Studies Foundation The Esperantic Studies Foundation, abbreviated ESF is a non-profit organisation initiated in 1968 by Jonathan Pool, E. James Lieberman and Humphrey Tonkin, with the aim to further the understanding and practice of linguistic justice in a multicult ...

(ESF) started the project to support linguistic study of Esperanto. ESF hired

Bertilo Wennergren Bertilo Wennergren ( sv, Bertil Wennergren; ; born 4 October 1956) is a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken p ...

to plan and create the first phase of the project, which finished at the end of April 2003. Wennergren was aided by

Ilona Koutny Ilona Koutny (born 1 March 1953 in Budapest) is a Hungarian linguist and Esperantist. She works as a professor in Poznań, Poland. In 2008, she was honoured as "Esperantist of the Year" by the magazine ''La Ondo de Esperanto''. Life Koutny stud ...

Jouko Lindstedt Jouko Lindstedt (born in 1955) is a Finnish linguist and a professor at the University of Helsinki. Lindstedt is a member of the Academy of Esperanto and was nominated as the Esperantist of the Year in 2000 (with Hans Bakker and Mauro La Torre ) by ...

Carlo Minnaja Carlo Minnaja (born 19 March 1940) is a retired professor of Mathematics, a native Esperanto speaker, and Esperanto translator, author and researcher. He authored many books about Esperanto, in Esperanto and Italian, including a vocabulary of Es ...

Christopher Gledhill Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει� ...

, and

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. In 2006 planning of the

Parola tekstaro de Esperanto Parola is an urban area in the municipality of Hattula in Finland. It is located 110 kilometres north of Helsinki. Cities nearby include Hämeenlinna, Tampere, Lahti and Forssa Forssa is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located alm ...

(''

Speech corpus A speech corpus (or spoken corpus) is a database of speech audio files and text transcriptions. In speech technology, speech corpora are used, among other things, to create acoustic models (which can then be used with a speech recognition or spea ...

of Esperanto'') was started.

References

External links

*
Interview with Bertilo Wennergren about the Tekstaro de Esperanto
in ''

Libera Folio ''Libera Folio'' (English: ''Free Folio'') is an online Esperanto periodical about the Esperanto movement independent from the Universal Esperanto Association The Universal Esperanto Association ( eo, Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA), also ...

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