Diachronic corpus of Czech sized 3.45 million words (i.e. 4.1 million tokens). It contains 116 texts from the 14th-20th century period. The texts are transcribed, not transliterated. Diakorp v6 is provided in a CoNLL-U-like vertical format used as an input to the Manatee query engine. The data thus correspond to the corpus available via the KonText query interface to the registered users of CNC at http://www.korpus.cz
Titles of courses possibly relevant to the Digital Humanities for 2017-2018, manually gathered from course catalogues of most Czech state colleges, including the names of the teachers, department and school names, and the school-unique course IDs. All this information was publicly available in the individual course catalogues accessed from the official websites of the individual colleges.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 48B from 1943 is about an event of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth called Sewing Dolls, which was part of the mandatory service. Girls, supervised by instructors, made toys out of pieces of cloth for the children of the labourers working in the Reich.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 52A, B from 1944 shows the distribution of Christmas presents to poor children, which was organised by Social Aid in collaboration with the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth and took place in the Great Hall of Lucerna Palace on 18 December. The event was attended by Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment and Chairman of the Board Emanuel Moravec.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 24B from 1944 was shot during the Days of Czech Youth organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth. The national event was preceded by districts rounds. The segment depicts the event that took place in Kolín nad Labem. The official procession through the streets of Kolín was followed by the District Track and Field Championship at the A.F.K. Stadium. Girls in folk costumes danced to folk songs.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 34 captures a speech given by Eddy Sherwood, an American journalist, Protestant missionary and YMCA official, in which he talks about the brave stance adopted by the Czechoslovak nation in the critical days of 1938.
This software package includes three tools: web frontend for machine translation featuring phonetic transcription of Ukrainian suitable for Czech speakers, API server and a tool for translation of documents with markup (html, docx, odt, pptx, odp,...). These tools are used in the Charles Translator service (https://translator.cuni.cz).
This software was developed within the EdUKate project, which aims to help mitigate language barriers between non-Czech-speaking children in the Czech Republic and the education in the Czech school system. The project focuses on the development and dissemination of multilingual digital learning materials for students in primary and secondary schools.
Journalist Egon Erwin Kisch in edited footage from post-war newsreel segments of his obituary in Týden ve filmu (Week in Film) 1948, issue no. 15. Kisch with the Mayor of Prague Václav Vacek at an exhibition.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 52 reports on the elections to the Slovak Land Assembly, the highest legislative body of autonomous Slovakia within the framework of the Second Czechoslovak Republic, which were held on 18 December 1938. The footage shows preparations for the distribution of ballots at the Town Hall in Bratislava.
ELITR Minuting Corpus consists of transcripts of meetings in Czech and English, their manually created summaries ("minutes") and manual alignments between the two.
Czech meetings are in the computer science and public administration domains and English meetings are in the computer science domain.
Each transcript has one or multiple corresponding minutes files. Alignments are only provided for a portion of the data.
This corpus contains 59 Czech and 120 English meeting transcripts, consisting of 71097 and 87322 dialogue turns respectively. For Czech meetings, we provide 147 total minutes with 55 of them aligned. For English meetings, it is 256 total minutes with 111 of them aligned.
Please find a more detailed description of the data in the included README and stats.tsv files.
If you use this corpus, please cite:
Nedoluzhko, A., Singh, M., Hledíková, M., Ghosal, T., and Bojar, O.
(2022). ELITR Minuting Corpus: A novel dataset for automatic minuting
from multi-party meetings in English and Czech. In Proceedings of the
13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC-2022), Marseille, France, June. European Language Resources
Association (ELRA). In print.
@inproceedings{elitr-minuting-corpus:2022,
author = {Anna Nedoluzhko and Muskaan Singh and Marie
Hled{\'{\i}}kov{\'{a}} and Tirthankar Ghosal and Ond{\v{r}}ej Bojar},
title = {{ELITR} {M}inuting {C}orpus: {A} Novel Dataset for
Automatic Minuting from Multi-Party Meetings in {E}nglish and {C}zech},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference
on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2022)},
year = 2022,
month = {June},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
note = {In print.}
}