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SYN v4: corpus of contemporary written Czech

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Abstract

Corpus of contemporary written Czech sized 3.6 billion running words (i.e. 4.3 billion tokens). It covers mostly the period of 1990-2014 and it features rich metadata including detailed bibliographical information, revised text-type classification etc.

Although it contains a wide range of text types (fiction, non-fiction, newspapers), the newspapers prevail noticeably. The corpus is lemmatized and morphologically annotated by a combination of stochastic and rule-based methods.