Home institution: Institute for the Croatian Language
Project duration: December 31, 2023 – December 30, 202
Project leader: dr. sc. Goranka Blagus Bartolec, Institute for the Croatian Language, Zagreb
Project team:
dr. Magdalena Baer, Instytut Filologii Słowiańskiej, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Poznań; associate
dr. sc. Petra Bago, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; associate
dr. sc. Goranka Blagus Bartolec, Institute for the Croatian Language, Zagreb; Project leader
dr. sc. Gorana Duplančić Rogošić, Faculty of Economics, Business, and Tourism, Split; associate
dr. sc. Barbara Kovačević, Institute for the Croatian Language, Zagreb; associate
dr. sc. Ivana Kurtović Budja, Institute for the Croatian Language, Zagreb; associate
dr. sc. Ivana Matas Ivanković, Institute for the Croatian Language, Zagreb; associate
dr. sc. Antonia Ordulj, Faculty of Croatian Studies, Zagreb; associate
dr. sc. Mirjana Šnjarić, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; associate
The project proposal includes the development of five databases – a basic database of multi-word expressions MWEs, an idiom database, a proverb database, a database of MWEs for Croatian as a foreign language, a database of verb collocations in Croatian, Polish, German, and English.
The data entered into the database will serve as a valuable resource for:
1. Various linguistic studies,
2. Improvement of corpus tools for detecting MWEs (including both general and specialized collocations, idioms, proverbs, grammatical phrases),
3. Contrastive research for translation purposes, creating parallel corpora, and teaching and learning Croatian as a foreign language.
Today, MWE databases are among the fundamental linguistic resources of every language and a key component in the development of natural language processing. Therefore, creating this online resource is strategically important for the Croatian language and for connecting Croatian with other languages (Polish, German, and English).
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