Last modified 30.04.1997

telriPartner Resources - Mannheim

Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN / 2.2 mill WORDS

Mannheimer Korpus I
The corpus contains 293 texts of various sources: fiction (all genres), poetry, scientific literature (academic and popular), newspapers and magazins in the period from 1950-1967.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN / 300 000 WORDS

Mannheimer Korpus II
The corpus contains 48 texts of various sources: non-fiction (operating instructions, resolutions, textbooks, leaflets), light fiction, scientific literature (academic and popular), newspapers, magazins of the period from 1949-1973.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN / at present 30 mill WORDS

Mannheimer Morgen Today (MMT)
This corpus contains articles from the daily Mannheim newspaper "Mannheimer Morgen". Every night the newspaper articels which are to be published in the next issues are transfered via modem line to the IDS pool and are automatically processed (conserving bibliographic information and the like) and added to the corpus. The date given in the reference of an article is the anticipated publication date. Therefore, it is either today's date or a future date; however, a few articles remain unpublished.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

Mannheimer Morgen Monitor Corpus (MMM)
It is a cumulative corpus, i.e., it contains all Mannheimer Morgen articles for the current year and is expanding daily through the addition of the MMT.
Conditions on demand.
Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN / 3 mill WORDS

Bonner Zeitungskorpus
The corpus is composed of 10 840 newspaper texts from the time in which Eastern Germany was the GDR and Western Germany was the FRG. The corpus contains a sample of texts from a big newspaper in Western Germany ("Die Welt") and a big newspaper from Eastern Germany ("Neues Deutschland") covering the years 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969 and 1974.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN / 200 000 WORDS

Grammatik-Korpus
The corpus contains fiction and trivial literature from the years 1971, 1977 and 1990.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN / 11 mill WORDS

Handbuchkorpus
The corpus contains 17330 texts from German magazins and newspapers, covering the years 1985-1988.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN / 3.3 mill WORDS

Wendekorpus
The corpus contains different sorts of text from the former GDR and the former FRG. It is composed of 3387 texts from the years 1989-1990 such as leaflets, pamphlets, protocols of the East German "Volkskammer" and the West German "Bundestag", speeches, proclamations and programmes which document the changes that led to the political turning-point in East Germany and in 1990 to the re-unification of Germany.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN / 1 mill WORDS

LIMAS Korpus
The corpus contains 500 excerpts from various kinds of texts, each with a length of 2000 words. Based on the "Nationalbiographie" of 1971/72 this corpus is composed of textual excerpts from 33 different topics.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN / 1.4 mill WORDS

Goethekorpus
This corpus contains works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is composed of 1411 texts, reaching from Goethe`s novels like "Die Wahlverwandtschaften" to theoretical and autobiographical texts.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN / at present 1.8 mill WORDS

Marx-Engels-Schriften
The corpus contains at present 535 texts of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The coprus is not completed at present.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

SPOKEN RESOURCES / GERMAN / 700 000 WORDS

Freiburger Korpus
The corpus contains 224 spoken texts from 1968 to 1974. It is composed of discussions, interviews, speeches, reports and narratives.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

SPOKEN RESOURCES / GERMAN / 200 000 WORDS

Dialogstrukturenkorpus
The corpus contains 72 texts from the years 1966-1977. It is composed of interviews and consultations.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

SPOKEN RESOURCES / GERMAN / 650 000 WORDS

PFEFFER-Korpus
The corpus contains supra-regional, colloquial language from West Germany (FRG), East Germany (GDR), Austria and Switzerland since the beginning of the 60s.
The corpus is based on the texts of the Stanford University and published in book form.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

SORTWARE / RETRIEVAL SYSTEM / GERMAN

For the retrieval of corpus information, the IDS provides its own online system:
COSMAS [http://www.ids-mannheim.de/kt/service-eng.html] (Corpus Storage, Maintenance and Access System), developed jointly with Makrolog GmbH. In addition to its standard retrieval facilities, COSMAS allows its users to design their own research corpus by selecting any number of texts from the corpora available within the system, according to individual specifications and demands. Click here to test the COSMAS WWW demo version.
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache

COSMAS-III is an enhanced version of the COSMAS system for the storage and maintenance of as well as the access to (annotated) language corpora. It has been developed within the MECOLB project and will be further improved and expanded, including statistical tools,speech recognition for computer supported transliteration and transcription of speech.

For further information on COSMAS and the IDS Corpora, please contact Dr. Irmtraud Jüttner, <juettner@ids-mannheim.de>

TEXTUAL RESOURCES / GERMAN - FRENCH

Reciprocal Parallel Corpus for German and French
Together with the Laboratoire de Linguistique Informatique of the University of Paris XIII the IDS is compiling a corpus of appr. 20 million words in each of the two languages with their relevant translations.
Available: End of 1997 (envisaged).
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Provider: Institut für deutsche Sprache / LLI

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