LoginLinguistic Corpora at the HZSK Repository
EXMARaLDA Demo Corpus 1.0
A selection of short audio and video recordings in various languages to be used for instruction or demonstration of the EXMARaLDA system.
Language: German, English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Vietnamese, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Russian, Afrikaans, Portuguese
License: HZSK-PUB (public)
Selkup Language Corpus (SLC)
The Selkup Language Corpus has been created within the project Syntactic description of the Central and Southern Selkup dialects: a corpus based analyses (supported by the German Research Grant; WA 3153/3-1). The primary goal of the project is to build a corpus and research syntactic structures on its base. The corpus contains 144 texts already published in written form with glosses and annotations. All texts have been translated into English, and mostly into Russian and German. The corpus also contains rich metadata on the communications and speakers. The transcription data as well as the metadata of the corpus are processed and stored in EXMARaLDA format.
Language: Selkup, Russian
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (public)
INEL Kamas Corpus 1.0
Kamas is an extinct Samoyedic language (Uralic family). The INEL Kamas corpus comprises folklore texts collected by Kai Donner in 1912–1914, before the language shift, and transcribed audio recordings of the last speaker, Klavdiya Plotnikova made between 1964 and 1970. Each text in the corpus is provided with morphological glossing, translation into English, Russian and German, annotation of borrowings. Some texts also have annotations for syntactic structure, semantic roles and information status.
Language: Kamas
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (public)
INEL Kamas Corpus 0.1
Kamas is an extinct Samoyedic language (Uralic family). The INEL Kamas corpus comprises folklore texts collected by Kai Donner in 1912–1914, before the language shift, and transcribed audio recordings of the last speaker, Klavdiya Plotnikova made between 1964 and 1970. Each text in the corpus is provided with morphological glossing, translation into English, Russian and German, annotation of borrowings. Some texts also have annotations for syntactic structure, semantic roles and information status.
Language: Kamas
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (public)
INEL Selkup Corpus
Selkup is an endangered Samoyedic language (Uralic family). The INEL Selkup corpus is composed of texts from the archive of Angelina Ivanovna Kuzmina (1924–2002), who gathered a large amount of material on Selkup in almost all regions where the Selkup people lived in 1962–1977. Most texts in the corpus originate from the handwritten part of the archive, the others come from sound recordings made by A.I. Kuzmina, transcribed and translated within the INEL project. Each text in the corpus is provided with morphological glossing, translation into English, Russian and German, annotation of borrowings. Some texts also have annotations for syntactic structure, semantic roles and information status.
Language: Selkup
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (public)
INEL Selkup Corpus 0.1
Selkup is an endangered Southern Samoyedic language (Uralic family). The INEL Selkup corpus is composed of texts from the archive of Angelina Ivanovna Kuzmina (1924–2002), who gathered a large amount of material on Selkup in almost all regions where the Selkup people lived in 1962–1977. Most texts in the corpus originate from the handwritten part of the archive, the others come from sound recordings made by A.I. Kuzmina, transcribed and translated within the INEL project. Each text in the corpus is provided with morphological glossing, translation into English, Russian and German, annotation of borrowings. Some texts also have annotations for syntactic structure, semantic roles and information status.
Language: Selkup
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (public)
Nganasan Spoken Language Corpus (NSLC)
The Nganasan Spoken Language Corpus (NSLC) has been created as part of Corpus based grammatical studies on Nganasan project (supported by the German Research Grant; WA3153/2-1). The Spoken Nganasan Corpus contains the same text samples in at least three languages: The original text in Nganasan with translations mostly into Russian and English, sometimes also into German. The corpus contains 55 communications from 15 different speakers. The bulk of the language material to be integrated, glossed and annotated has been collected by several researchers and is available in audio format. The transcription data as well as the metadata of the corpus are processed and stored in EXMARaLDA format.
Language: Nganasan, Russian
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (public)
The Spoken Wikipedia Corpora
The Spoken Wikipedia project unites volunteer readers of Wikipedia articles. Hundreds of spoken articles in multiple languages are available to users who are – for one reason or another – unable or unwilling to consume the written version of the article. Our resource, the Spoken Wikipedia Corpus, consolidates the Spoken Wikipediae, adding text segmentation, normalization, time-alignment and further annotations, making it accessible for research and fostering new ways of interacting with the material.
Language: English, German, Dutch
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (public)
euroWiss - Linguistic Profiling of European Academic Education (Subcorpus 1)
Subcorpus 1 presents part of the euroWiss-Corpus covering communication in teaching/learning discourses in instruction at German and Italian universities, in the humanities as well as the technical and natural sciences; it offers access to transcriptions of lectures and seminars aligned with audio recordings and the text types used for instruction. The corpus comprises 18 Communications, 24 audio recordings, 24 transcriptions, 140,000 transcribed words, 19 identified speakers, 18 students' notes, 2 lecture scripts, 24 chalkboard presentions, 2 powerpoint presentations, 3 overhead slides, 3 handouts, 14 schedules/descriptions of recorded lecture/seminar
Language: German, Italian
License: HZSK-ACA (academic)
The Hamburg MapTask Corpus (HAMATAC)
Audio recordings of map tasks with adult L2 users of German. The speakers´ L1 and their L2 proficiencies vary. The maps used for the tasks are available.; Audioaufnahmen von Map-Task-Aufgaben bei Erwachsenen mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Die Kompetenzen der Sprecher in Erst- und Zweitsprache variieren. Die in dieser Aufgabe benutzten Karten sind verfügbar.
Language: German
License: HZSK-ACA (academic)
The Hamburg MapTask Corpus (HAMATAC)
Audio and two video recordings of map tasks with adult L2 users of German and one L1 speaker. The speakers' L1 and their L2 proficiencies vary. The maps used for the tasks are available.
Language: German
License: HZSK-ACA (academic)
Hamburg Modern Times Corpus (HaMoTiC)
Audio recordings of a film retelling task with adult L2 users of German. The speakers' L1 and their L2 proficiencies vary. 24 communications + 1 German reference communication, duration between 2 and 16 minutes. For each speaker, a language learner biography (audio and freely transcribes) is available.
Language: German
License: HZSK-ACA (academic)
Covert translation: Business Communication (old)
Translation corpora of original texts with translations and comparable texts from the genre external business communication
Language: German, English
License: HZSK-ACA (academic)
Covert translation: Business Communication (new)
Translation corpora of original texts with translations and comparable texts from the genre external business communication.
Language: German, English
License: HZSK-ACA (academic)
B1 Yom
The data sets for each language consist of a small number of mini-dialogues, chosen out of the 189 entries within the Focus Translation Task (cf. Skopeteas et al. 2006: 209ff.) in order to get a basic set of utterances for comparison between the languages dealt with in the project.
Language: Yom
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B1 Fon
The data sets for each language consist of a small number of mini-dialogues, chosen out of the 189 entries within the Focus Translation Task (cf. Skopeteas et al. 2006: 209ff.) in order to get a basic set of utterances for comparison between the languages dealt with in the project.
Language: Fon
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B2 Bura
Full set: all focus related experiments, status: work in progress, large parts elicited, most of the data transcribed, partly annotated
Language: Bura
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B1 Aja
The data sets for each language consist of a small number of mini-dialogues, chosen out of the 189 entries within the Focus Translation Task (cf. Skopeteas et al. 2006: 209ff.) in order to get a basic set of utterances for comparison between the languages dealt with in the project.
Language: Aja
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B2 Marghi
Full set: all focus related experiments, status: work in progress, large parts elicited, most of the data transcribed, partly annotated.
Language: Marghi
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B1 Foodo
The data sets for each language consist of a small number of mini-dialogues, chosen out of the 189 entries within the Focus Translation Task (cf. Skopeteas et al. 2006: 209ff.) in order to get a basic set of utterances for comparison between the languages dealt with in the project.
Language: Foodo
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B2 Tangale
Tangale sample: sample, status: final, manually transcribed, glossed and translated to English, annotated wrt. morphology, parts of speech, syntax, gramm. function, sem. roles, focus and focus position (e.g. ex situ) in EXMARaLDA.
Language: Tangale
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
Türkisch-Englisch-Deutsch bei Herkunftssprechern (TEDH)
The TEDH has been created as part of the project "Foreign Language Acquisition in German-Turkish bilinguals". The TEDH Corpus contains interviews in three languages: Turkish, English, German. The corpus contains 74 communications from 25 different speakers. The bulk of the language material to be integrated, glossed and annotated has been collected by several researchers and is available in audio format. The transcription data as well as the metadata of the corpus are processed and stored in EXMARaLDA format.
Language: German, Turkish, English
License: HZSK-ACA (academic)
B7 Wolof (web)
The corpus comprises out of a collection of texts from discussion forums in the web, randomly chosen for their near-standard like orthography and language, and treating different topics. The texts are translated manually by a mother tongue speaker and automatically tagged by a part-of-speech tagger. No further annotation is provided.
Language: Wolof
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B4 Heliand
Heliand 1, 4 and 5: complete text, status: final, digitalization, translation to Modern German, manually annotated with parts of speech, syntactic categories, grammatical functions, clause status, numbers of syllables (per constituent), alliteration, information status, topic/comment, position of phrase in sentence, definiteness, focus/background, focus-marker, comments on context, source (bibliography).
Language: Old High German
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B2 Hausa
Hausa: complete set, status: final, manually transcribed, glossed and translated to English, annotated wrt. morphology, parts of speech, syntax, gramm. function, sem. roles, focus and focus position (e.g. ex situ) in EXMARaLDA.
Language: Hausa
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B4 Sächsische Weltchronik
The corpus contains a chronic from the 13th century in Middle Low German.
Language: Old High German
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B4 Ludolf
The texts of this corpus, Ludolf von Sudheims Reise ins Heilige Land (Ludolf of Sudheim’s Journey to the Holy Land), is a journey diary describing the adventures of a group of pilgrims, written in Middle Low German and dated back to 1350. For information on the properties of the text, including the manuscripts, see Blust-Thiele (1985). This corpus uses the text edition by Stapelmohr (1937). The first 20 pages of it are tagged for clause type and grammatical function. The corpus includes 6,690 tokens.
Language: German Middle Low
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B4 Muspilli
Complete text, status: work in progress, digitalization, translation to English, manually annotated with parts of speech, syntactic category, grammatical function, clause status, numbers of syllables (per constituent), information status, topic/comment, position of constituent in sentence, definiteness, focus/background, focus marker, comments, source (bibliography).
Language: Old High German
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B7 Wolof (Wikipedia)
The corpus comprises out of a collection of texts from the Wolof Wikipedia, randomly chosen for their near-standard like orthography and language, and treating different topics. The texts are translated manually by a mother tongue speaker and automatically tagged by a part-of-speech tagger. No further annotation is provided.
Language: Wolof
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B2 Guruntum
Guruntum sample: sample, status: final, manually transcribed, glossed and translated to English, annotated wrt. morphology, parts of speech, syntax, gramm. function, sem. roles, focus and focus position (e.g. ex situ) in EXMARaLDA.
Language: Guruntum
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
B4 Tatian Corpus of Deviating Examples 2.1
The present corpus, the Tatian Corpus of Deviating Examples T-CODEX 2.1, provides morpho-syntactic and information structural annotation of parts of the Old High German translation attested in the MS St. Gallen Cod. 56, traditionally called the OHG Tatian, one of the largest prose texts from the classical OHG period. This corpus was designed and annotated by Project B4 of Collaborative Research Center on Information Structure at Humboldt University Berlin. The present corpus compiles ca. 2.000 deviating examples found in the text portions of the scribes α, β, γ and ε. Each clause structure represents an extra file annotated with the annotation tool EXMARaLDA and searchable via ANNIS, a general-purpose tool for the publication, visualisation and querying of linguistic data collections, developed by Project D1 of the Collaborative Research Center on Information Structure at Potsdam University.
Language: Latin, Old High German
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (public)
Das Kiezdeutschkorpus (KiDKo)
A multi-modal digital corpus of spontaneous discourse data from informal, oral peer group in multi- and monoethnic speech communities.
Language: German, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic
License: HZSK-ACA (academic)
B4 Historisches Predigtenkorpus zum Nachfeld
HIPKON is the first corpus based on only one text type (sermons) and on one dialect area, Upper German (Bavarian-Alemannic). The sermons cover the time from Middle High German to the beginning of the New High German period. They were accurately selected so that each of them is representative of one century. Among others, syntax, information structure and discourse structure were annotated in the corpus.
Language: New High German
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (academic)
ALCEBLA
Audio recordings in Spanish with 23 German/Spanish simultaneous bilingual children living in Germany and attending the Spanish complementary school at the first level. 1-6 recordings with each child, with 11 children also before the children attended the Spanish complementary school. All recordings feature elicited speech: A picture naming task, a story telling task, a morphosyntactic test, a lexical test, and the HAVAS 5. Rich metadata on language use and attitudes in the family submitted by the parents.
Language: German, Spanish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Catalan in a bilingual context (PhonCAT)
Audio recordings of prompted, read and spontaneous speech data from L1 Catalan speakers from Barcelona. The data is stratified according to three different city districts and three age groups. Speakers' age vary from approx. 5 to 45 years.
Language: Catalan
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Community Interpreting Database Pilot Corpus (ComInDat)
Audio and video recordings of various types of community interpreted discourse (doctor-patient communication, simulated doctor-patient communication, courtroom communication) in German (simulated and authentic doctor-patient communication) and US (courtroom communication) institutions with varying community languages. Video recordings only exist for the simulated communication. For the authentic interpreted doctor-patient communication, no audio files will be made available.
Language: German, English, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Haitian
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting (CoSi)
Audio and video recordings of three lectures in Portuguese, one simultaneously and two consecutively professionally interpreted into German. For the simultaneouly interpreted lecture there are different recordings and transcriptions for the participants.
Language: German, Portuguese
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Dolmetschen im Krankenhaus (DiK)
Audio recordings of various kinds of doctor-patient communication in hospitals. There are both monolingual conversations in German, Portuguese and Turkish, recorded in the respective country, and interpreted conversations recorded in Germany (i.e. in German-Turkish, German-Portuguese, and German-Portuguese/Spanish), about 15-20 recordings of each kind. The persons interpreting are bilingual hospital employees or relatives of the patients, who are all adults living in Germany but with varying knowledge of German.
Language: German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Faroese Danish Corpus Hamburg 1.0.dan (FADAC-1.0.dan Hamburg)
Audio recordings of semi-structured interviews with bilingual speakers (aged 16-89 years) from various geographical areas on the Faroe Islands. For 37 of the 56 subjects there are recordings in both their L1 Faroese and their L2 Danish. Only the Danish data is available.
Language: Danish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Hamburg Adult Bilingual LAnguage (HABLA)
Audio recordings (semi-spontaneous interviews) with German/Italian and German/French bilingual speakers aged approx. 15-55 years at the recording sessions. The simultaneous bilinguals with German and French/Italian as L1s have been recorded twice, i.e. once for each language. The successive bilinguals with German as L1 and French/Italian as L2, or French/Italian as L1 and German as L1 all have AOAs between 11 and 38 years and have been recorded using their L2.
Language: German, French, Italian
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Hamburg Corpus of Argentinean Spanish (HaCASpa)
Audio and video recordings of experimental/read and spontaneous speech from adult speakers of Porteño Spanish in Argentina. Speakers are 18-69 years old and from two geographic areas. For the intonational experiments, there are audio recordings only, whereas some of the free interviews and map tasks feature video recordings. The material used as stimuli in the experiments is available with references encoded in the transcriptions.
Language: Spanish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Hamburg Corpus of Old Swedish with Syntactic Annotations (HaCOSSA)
Religious and secular prose, law texts, non-fiction literature (geographical, theological, historic, natural science), diploma.
Language: English, German, Latin, Old Swedish, Swedish
License: FID-AKA (restricted)
Hamburg Corpus of Polish in Germany (HamCoPoliG)
Audio recordings of German/Polish bilingual and Polish monolingual adults (16-46 years). Recordings of semi-spontaneous data (3 topics) and renarration of a picture story.
Language: Polish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Nganasan Spoken Language Corpus (NSLC)
The Nganasan Spoken Language Corpus (NSLC) has been created as part of Corpus based grammatical studies on Nganasan project (supported by the German Research Grant; WA3153/2-1). The Spoken Nganasan Corpus contains the same text samples in at least three languages: The original text in Nganasan with translations mostly into Russian and English, sometimes also into German. The corpus contains 55 communications from 15 different speakers. The bulk of the language material to be integrated, glossed and annotated has been collected by several researchers and is available in audio format. The transcription data as well as the metadata of the corpus are processed and stored in EXMARaLDA format.
Language: Nganasan, Russian
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Parameterfixierung im Deutschen und Spanischen (PAIDUS)
Audio recordings of five German and five Spanish speaking monolingual children. For the German children there are about 30 recordings (interviewer/child interaction) per child, on an average starting at 9 months and ending at 3 years; for the Spanish children there are on average 15 recordings per child ending at 2 years.
Language: German, Spanish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
PhonBLA Longitudinalstudie Hamburg
Audio and Video recordings of four German/Spanish bilingual children starting at approx. 1 year and 6 months and ending at age 6-7 years with about 100 recordings (interviewer/child interaction) of each child, half of them in each language.
Language: German, Spanish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Hamburg Old Scandinavian Text Collection (HOSTCol)
Law texts, chap books, miscellaneous literature in Old Swedish and Old Danish.
Language: Old Swedish, Old Danish
License: FID-AKA (restricted)
Phonologie-Erwerb Deutsch-Spanisch als Erste Sprachen (PEDSES)
Audio recordings of three German/Spanish simultaneous bilingual children starting at approx. 1 year and ending at 2 or 3 years. There are 20-50 recording sessions (interviewer/child interaction) per child, half of them conducted in German and half in Spanish.
Language: German, Spanish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Phon-CL2
Audio recordings of 15 German subjects in Spain (5 to 36 years old) with Spanish as L2 and AOA > 2 years. Recording sessions in Spanish based on picture naming and story telling etc. Rich metadata on language use and attitudes in the family submitted by the parents.
Language: German, Spanish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
TraCES
Corpus of the Classical Ethiopic Language (Ge'ez), produced by the TraCES project (https://www.traces.uni-hamburg.de/en/about.html) in 2014-2019. The corpus is morphologically annotated and freely accessible for online search. The current corpus is a beta test run and should be treated as work in progress, as annotation has been carried to a varying degree of detail.
Language: Ethiopic
License: BY-NC-ND 4.0 (academic)
Rehbein-ENDFAS/Rehbein-SKOBI-Korpus
Audio recordings of evocative field experiments (picture story, retelling, spontaneous discourse etc.) with Turkish/German bilingual children and monolingual Turkish / monolingual German children as control data.
Language: German, Turkish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Scandinavian Semicommunication in Radio Programmes
Bilingual radio broadcasts of Scandinavian speakers interacting using their respective languages. The speakers have Danish, Norwegian or Swedish as L1 and varying receptive knowledge of the other languages.
Language: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
License: FID-AKA (restricted)
Scandinavian Semicommunication in the Oeresund Region
Bilingual radio broadcasts of Scandinavian speakers interacting using their respective languages. Most speakers have Danish or Swedish as L1 and varying receptive knowledge of the other languages and live in the Oeresund region.
Language: Danish, Swedish
License: FID-AKA (restricted)
Sprachvariation in Norddeutschland (SiN)
Audio recordings of adult speaker of Northern German varieties.
Language: German, Low German
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
TÜ_DE-cL2-Korpus
Video recordings in German of eight bilingual children with L1 Turkish and L2 German with AOA of 3-4 years. Several recordings of spontaneous speech (play) during 7-28 months at ages approx. 3-6,5 years, and of elicited language with focus on article usage. Comparable data for the TÜ_DE-L1-Korpus.
Language: German
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Perceptual Dialectology
Audio recordings of interactions where mental maps of various dialects of (spoken) German were elicited from adult subjects belonging to three age groups and various geographical regions within the German-speaking area. The mental maps produced are available via a GIS web application.
Language: German
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
B4 Otfrid
The reference corpus Old German contains (annotated) data from the oldest language monuments of German before the continuous written transduction around 750 until 1050 with approx. 650,000 text words.
Language: Old High German
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (academic)
Faroese Danish Corpus Hamburg (FADAC Hamburg)
FADAC Hamburg is a corpus of spoken, informal Faroese and Faroese Danish that has been collected as part of the project Variation in the Multilingualism on the Faroe Islands at the Research Centre on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg.
Language: Danish, Faroese
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Perceptual Dialectology
Audio recordings of interactions where mental maps of various dialects of (spoken) German were elicited from adult subjects belonging to three age groups and various geographical regions within the German-speaking area. The mental maps produced are available via a GIS web application.
Language: German
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
Hamburg Corpus of Polish in Germany (HamCoPoliG)
Audio recordings of German/Polish bilingual and Polish monolingual adults (16-46 years). Recordings of semi-spontaneous data (3 topics) and renarration of a picture story.
Language: Polish
License: HZSK-RES (restricted)
