The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 33 shows children playing in gas masks in Prague.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 1A from 1944 was shot during a Christmas exhibition organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth and held in the hall of the Black Rose Palace in Na Příkopě Street in Prague from 18 to 22 December. The exhibition included a display of the 500 prettiest toys made as part of the Sewing Dolls initiative. Girls made 59,000 dolls, out of which 44,000 went to the children of the labourers working in the Reich and 15,000 to the children of the German soldiers fighting on the front. The exhibition was toured by Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment and Chairman of the Board Emanuel Moravec and General Secretary of the Board František Teuner.
Transcripts of longitudinal audio recordings of 7 Czech typical monolingual children between 1;7 to 3;9. Files are in plain text with UTF-8 encoding. Each file represents one recording session of one of the target children and is named with the presudonym of the child and her age at the given session in form YMMDD. Transcription rules and other details are to find on the homepage coczefla.ff.cuni.cz.
A new version of the previously published corpus Chroma. The version 2023.04 includes six children. Two transcripts (Julie20221, Klara30424) were removed since they did not meet the criteria on the dialogical format. The transcripts were revised (eliminating typing errors and inconsistencies in the transcription format) and morphologically annotated by the automatic tool MorphoDiTa. Detailed manual control of the annotation was performed on children's utterances; the annotation of adult data was not checked yet. Files are in plain text with UTF-8 encoding. Each file represents one recording session of one of the target children and is named with the alias of the child and their age at the given session in form YMMDD. Transcription rules and other details can be found on the homepage coczefla.ff.cuni.cz.
A new version of the previously published corpus Chroma wih morphological annotation. The version 2023.07 differs from 2023.04 in that it includes all seven children and it went through an additional careful check of consistency and conformity to the CHAT transcription principles.
Two transcripts (Julie20221, Klara30424) from the previous versions (2022.07, 2019.07) were removed since they did not meet our criteria on dialogical format. All transcripts of recordings made during one day were split into one file. Thus, version 2023.07 consists of 183 files/transcripts. The number of utterances and tokens given here in LINDAT corresponds to children's lines only.
Files are in plain text with UTF-8 encoding. Each file represents one recording session of one of the target children and is named with the alias of the child and their age at the given session in form YMMDD. Transcription rules and other details can be found on the homepage coczefla.ff.cuni.cz.
CoDipA UNSC 1.0, or a Corpus of Diplomatic Attitudes of the United Nations Security Council is a language resource manually annotated with the attitude-part of Appraisal theory. The speeches were selected according to topic-related
and temporal criteria, and are representative of 5 major international military conflicts that have occurred between 1995 and 2020. The texts were annotated according to the predefined annotation scenario, which is based on the original Appraisal theory and later available commentaries on specificity of its implementation.
The annotated texts are available in JSON Lines format. The corpus also contains double annotations of the 8 selected speeches.
Segment of the Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942 No. 41 captures the funeral of Alexandr Commichau, head of the Reich Labour Service, held on 5 October 1942 in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle, decorated with Nazi emblems for the occassion. The deceased´s military honours are on display next to a bier with the coffin. Mourners include the widow, a little girl and State Secretary Hermann Frank. Acting Reich Protector Kurt Daluege lays down a wreath from Adolf Hitler. The funeral speech is delivered by Deputy Chief General of RAD Wilhelm Decker (silent). The procession with the coffin, which will be transported to a crematorium in Prague, moves through the Matthias Gate.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 49AB from 1943 captures the concert called Five Years Leading the Nation, which was organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth to mark the fifth anniversary of Emil Hácha´s presidency, and held at Smetana Hall in the Municipal House in Prague on 29 November. General Secretary of the Board František Teuner gave a speech at the formal event. The programme included a selection of folk songs by Otakar Jeremiáš performed by the Czech Choir and the Kühn Children´s Choir accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of Karel Šejna.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 42A from 1944 was shot during a concert organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth and held in the Smetana Hall of the Municipal House in Prague on 3 October. The concert was dedicated to mark the 70th birth anniversary of the late composer Josef Suk. The programme, prepared by the Czech Philharmonic led by conductor Otakar Pařík, included the symphonic poem "Praga".