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Dr. Miroslav Zumrík (Slovak National Corpus Department, Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics) together with Dr. Marketa Štefková (Department of German, Dutch and Scandinavian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University) took part in the international conference Transius 2025 that was held from 7 to 9 July in Geneva in Switzerland. Their talk, Quantifying Legal Language. A…
The new version of the Slovak-English Parallel Corpus par-sken-5.0 contains 526 million tokens. The corpus consists of the two parts: the subcorpus of fiction and the subcorpus of freely available texts, the EU texts especially. For full access free registration is required.
Listen to an interesting interview with Prof. Pavol Žigo about Cyril and Methodius who brought Christianity, but they also unified the Great Moravia by using common liturgical language, alphabet and Slavic law code. Listen to the interview by clicking here.
Do you know where the swear words, used by Slovaks come from? Did you know that people could once be prosecuted for using the word “huncút”? You can listen to the interview with our director Ľubor Králik on TV JOJ 24 podcast about the etymology of swear words by clicking here.