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The paper describes the new corpus SYN2015, the most recent 100 million word corpus of contemporary written Czech. General notions of corpus representativeness and balance are discussed in this context with a focus on the new design of representativeness adopted for SYN2015. Unlike the previous synchronic corpora SYN2000, SYN2005 and SYN2010, which were balanced according to text reception (based...
This paper presents a comparison of the largest contemporary corpus of spoken Czech ORAL2013 and a different source, data gathered in the project “Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Use of Prothetic v- in Bohemia” (SAUP). Both of these data sources consist of informal interviews with Czech speakers, but their design is different. ORAL2013 is based on shorter recordings of many speakers whereas the SAUP...
Recently, more attention has been paid to the issues of corpus design and representativeness. These issues are especially important for general-purpose language corpora such as the spoken corpora developed within the framework of the Czech National Corpus. This text is a response to Jan Chromý’s paper “Comparison of spoken corpora from a sociolinguistic perspective” (Slovo a slovesnost 78, 2017: 145-158),...
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