Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Arts |
2012
Abstract
In this paper we describe our efforts to build a corpus of Old Czech. We report on tools, resources and methodologies used during the corpus development as well as discuss the corpus sources and structure, the tagset used, the approach to lemmatization, morphological analysis and tagging.
Due to practical restrictions we adapt resources and tools developed for Modern Czech. However, some of the described challenges, such as the non-standardized spelling in early Czech and the form and lemma variability due to language change during the covered time-span, are unique and never arise when building synchronic corpora of Modern Czech.