Category:Text corpora

A text corpus is a large collection of (often as diverse as possible) texts in a given language. Text corpora are very useful for checking how often a given expression is used in a language (and which are rare or never occur), thus they might be a huge help to learners who want to check whether a certain construction is natural-sounding or not. They are also extremely useful when doing research about language grammar and how it changes over time. Many corpora contain also additional information about individual words (like their part-of-speech and other inflectional information when applicable, like grammatical case, gender, tense, mood…).

Below is a list of useful publicly-available corpora for Celtic languages.

Goidelic

Irish

• Nua-Chorpas na hÉireann (New Corpus for Ireland), also known as the Foclóir.ie corpus

• requires registration (free-of-charge)
• all kinds of modern texts (fiction, poetry, official documents, newspaper articles, etc. from 20th and 21st century) written by both native and non-native speakers
• allows filtering by text type (native/non-native, specific dialect)
• part-of-speech tagged
• uses Sketch Engine
• alternative new interface at focloir.sketchengine.eu
• See Irish/Using corpas.focloir.ie for some additional tips

• Historical Irish Corpus, also known as the RIA corpus

• publicly available
• literary texts composed in Irish between 1600 and 1926

Scottish Gaelic

• Corpas na Gàidhlig DASG

Classical Gaelic

• Irish Syllabic Poetry corpus

• corpus of Classical Gaelic bardic poetry
• part-of-speech tagged (although very imperfect since based on tagging method for modern Irish)
• uses non-normalized spelling (so finding a form might be difficult sometimes)
• based on Bardic Poetry Database

• Historical Irish Corpus (corpus RIA) – mainly a Modern Irish corpus, but also useful for Early Modern texts and sometimes bardic poetry since it contains texts from 1600 and later, see under Irish