Activities in 2008

January 2008 – creation and thorough testing of the pilot CorALit corpus (500 000 words).

February – June 2008 – error analysis and development of standardised work methodology and text encoding markers.

February – June 2008 – creation of algorithms for automatic text encoding using GRID technologies.

July – August 2008 – Student Research Practice organised in the language corpus laboratory (http://www.smpraktika.lt/). Research practice was chosen by two students of the Faculty of Philology (Vilnius University) Viktorija Mazalevskytė ir Justina Valotkaitė.

July – December 2008 – dissemination of information about the corpus: preparation and printing of the information leaflet, participation in a TV programme.

Autumn semester 2008( 24 November 2008 – 19 December 2008) – professional practice for BA students of the Faculty of Philology organised in the language corpus laboratory. Corpus practice was chosen by the following students: Lina Andrijauskienė, Jevgenija Avedenij, Ana Baranova, Indrė Jaruševičiūtė, Liudmila Kazak, Loreta Kinderevičiūtė, Viktorija Mazalevskytė, Justyna Michno, Dmitrij Presnov, Justina Valotkaitė.

November – December 2008 – creation of specialised internet webpage (www.coralit.lt).

January – December 2008 – 3 million words added to the corpus.