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The current version of the corpus web-8.0 contains 5 889 464 749 tokens. Compared to the previous version, the corpus increased by approximately 600 000 000 tokens. The latest version of the web corpus can be found in your SNK account in the section Written Corpora – Web Corpora. The corpus is currently available free of…
Slepá mapka (The Blind Map) – dialect quiz is here! How well do you know the Slovak dialects? In this quiz, you’ll hear a dialect sample (with a transcript), the location is shown on a map, and your task is to make a guess which dialect you’re hearing. The small glossary below the recording can help you!…
Our colleague Dr. phil. Jakob Horsch, M.A. (Slovak National Corpus Department, Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences) accepted an invitation by the professor Laura A. Janda from the Department of Language and Culture at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. Dr. Horsch represented our department at the university on April 21, 2026 with a presentation…
Words and language are tools for communication, but in the hands of people, they often act like a loaded weapon. On the one hand, they can motivate, express love or respect; on the other, they can discriminate, manipulate, insult, or ignore – even without using derogatory words. Our colleague Jaroslava Rusinková from the Department of…