General
- a Western Slavonic language, related to Polish and Slovak
- about 11M speakers, most of them are in Czechia.
- uses the Latin alphabet with some diacritics (acute accent, hacek and ring)
- has a rich and complex inflection (e.g. nouns: 7 cases, 3(+1) genders, 2(+1) numbers, many paradigms and many exceptions)
- the word order is very free and is used to express topic-focus articulation (and definiteness)
- largely influenced by German (mostly in the lexicon)
- the colloquial version of Czech has a slightly different morphology (simpler) and lexicon than the official one
Software, Corpora, etc.
Corpora
Prague Dependency Treebank
- morphologically and syntactically annotated corpus (about 2 MWo)
Online Access to Syntax Annotation,
PDT 2.0
Czech National Corpus
(Public Access)
Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank
- paralel corpus (translation of 20K sentences from Penn Treebank 3 and 50K sentences from Reader's Digest)
Czech Academic Corpus -- 550 KWo from 1970s and 1980s.
Czech Literary Anthology at Brown with translations and audio.
Morphology
Morph. tags:
Quick Reference,
Detailed Reference
Online Morphological generator /
analyzer and tagger (currently not working)
Czech Free Morphology Download
Taggers:
Markov Model tagger,
Feature-based tagger
Xerox Czech demos - tokenization, morph. analysis, POS disambiguation
Lexical Annotation Workbench
Syntax
Guide to Czech Parsing
Tree viewers and editors
Tree Editor TrEd
- A graphical editor and viewer of trees and annotation tool for Windows, Linux and Unix systems written in Perl.
Graph
- A graphical editor and viewer of trees and annotation tool for Windows.
Netgraph
- viewer of online syntax (surface and deep) trees
Utilities
PDT format to Penn Treebank format conversion
SGML <-> FS
Dependency trees <-> PS trees
Compact tags <->Positional tags
Dictionaries
Valex - Valency Lexicon of Czech Verbs
Seznam,
WinGED,
Wordbook,
Translator,
Slovnik,
a list at Seznam,
Links to various English-Czech dictionaries
Other
Agile system
- automatic generation of CAD/CAM manuals in Czech, Bulgarian, Russian and English.
Other Links
General Links:
Czech at wiki,
Bohemica,
Czech at BBC,
Czech Language,
Czech Lessons at Local Lingo,
Czech at UCLA,
Czech at Ethnologue,
Gustav pro jazyk českýCz,
SlovoDneCz (Fred's Czech Mate - section in English)
Grammars:
at Bohemica (
Pronunciation,
Spelling),
pronunciation
Institutions:
CKL,
ÚFAL,
ÚTKL,
ÚCNK
Rest:
Czech on Language links,
Czech on computersCz,
Czech at WWW pagesCz,
Czech - English Translation Problems,
Czech keyboard layout,
How not to do a translator:
Langsoft,
tranexp