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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Taras,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In the University of Athens we have developed a web interface for 3 different Modern Greek corpora: a) Corpus of Greek Texts: It is the one that Valentini previously mentioned and is maintained by Dr. Goutsos. However you can find another interface with different features in this address (<a href="http://sek.edu.gr/index.php?en">http://sek.edu.gr/index.php?en</a>) . The paper describing the corpus compilation can be found here: <a href="http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/cor.2010.0002">http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/cor.2010.0002</a> . b) Special corpus for teaching Modern Greek as a foreign language (380Kwords):</span><span lang=EN-US> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This corpus contains texts organized in three different thematic areas (Market, Health and Environment). The specific topics are related directly to the teaching units of the curriculum “Intermediate level for Modern Greek” of the Greek Language Centre. c) Learner corpus for the study of the interlanguage produced by the foreigners who learn Modern Greek: The corpus contains 333 essays written by foreigners originated by 51 different countries who learn Modern Greek in the School of the University of Athens. The current size of the corpus is 75 Kwords. Each essay has been transcribed in electronic form and each error has been tagged using a custom error taxonomy developed specifically for the needs of the project. Error tagging carried out using special software (Episimiotis) which utilized XML for coding errors and metalanguage data for each text. The learner corpus is currently undocumented and we will redesign it from scratch. If you need raw texts I can send you the files of the Special Corpus for teaching Modern Greek as a foreign language.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Furthermore, you can access the corpora maintained by the Portal of the Greek Language (<a href="http://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/corpora/index.html">http://www.greek-language.gr/greekLang/modern_greek/tools/corpora/index.html</a>). There are 3 available corpora: a) Corpus of the newspaper “TA NEA” with 2Mwords. b) Corpus of the newspaper “Macedonia” with 3Mwords. c) Corpus of all the books used in the Greek secondary education with 2Mwords. All the above mentioned corpora are lemmatized and POS tagged.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>George Mikros<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-----------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>George K. Mikros<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Department of Italian Language and Literature <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>School of Philosophy <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>National and Kapodistrian University of Athens <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Greece<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tel.: +30 210 7277491<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Taras Zagibalov<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> Corpora@uib.no<br><b>Subject:</b> [Corpora-List] Greek corpus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear list members,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Do you know any freely available plain text modern Greek corpus? Preferably in Unicode.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Taras Zagibalov<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>