Portuguese Corpora at CLUL

The Corpus de Referência do Português Contemporâneo (CRPC) is being developed in the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL) since 1988 under a perspective of research data enlargement, in the sense of concepts and hypothesis verification by rejecting the sole use of intuitive data. The intention of creating this open corpus is to establish an on-line representative sample collection of general usage contemporary Portuguese: a main corpus of great dimension as well as several specialized corpora. The CRPC has nowadays around 92 million words. Following the use in this area, the CRPC project intends to establish a linguistic database accessible to everyone interested in making theoretical and practical studies or applications. The Dialectal oral corpus of the Atlas Linguístico-Etnográfico de Portugal e da Galiza (ALEPG) is constituted by approximately 3500 hours of speech collected by the CLUL Dialectal Studies Research Group and recorded in analogic audio tape. This corpus contains mainly directed speech: answers to a linguistic questionnaire essentially lexical, but also focusing on some phonetic and morpho-phonological phenomena. An important part of spontaneous speech enables other kind of studies such as syntactic, morphological or phonetic ones. 1. Corpus de Referência do Português Contemporâneo (CRPC) The CRPC at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa is an electronically based linguistic corpus containing at the present 92 million words taken by sampling from several types of written speech (literary, newspaper, technical, scientific, didactic, economics, decisions of the supreme court of justice, parliament) and oral speech (formal and informal). These samplings pertain to nacional and regional varieties of Portuguese, representing European, Brazilian, African, Macau, and East-Timor Portuguese. We intend to collect spoken Portuguese samples from some communities in India. From a chronological point of view our corpus contains texts from the second half of the XIX century up until now, mostly after 1970. TOTAL DIMENSION 92 million words