salCORPORA

The text database salCORPORA contains written corpora of  South Asian Languages. Presently only Hindi is processed, but more languages are expected to be added. The database is located at the Department of Modern South Asian Studies, South Asia Institute, Universtity of Heidelberg. An office in New Delhi serves for the acquisition and input of the texts.

salCORPORA main features

extension and maintenance of corpora of written Hindi

texts from the commencements of Hindi till today

permanent upgrading

works of fiction, scientific and popular scientific texts, newspaper texts and many other textforms

empirical basis for language-related research

Financed by:	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
Head:	Monika Boehm-Tettelbach
Organisation:	Claus Peter Zoller
Engineering:	Günter Unbescheid

Please note: This site is still under construction, so not all of the links below are active at the moment.

application areas

corpus acquisition

the salCORPORA text model

current corpus archive

morphological tagging

operational availability