The Corpus of Greek Texts: a reference corpus for Modern Greek

Abstract

This paper reports on the construction of a reference corpus for Modern Greek, the Corpus of Greek Texts (CGT), that is currently being developed at the University of Athens. In particular, it points out the need for an authoritative corpus of Greek in view of the limitations of existing attempts to compile corpora for the language. It also presents the aims and identity of CGT with particular reference to its structure (composition of data and text classification). Questions of corpus design, which are particularly important with respect to available resources for Greek, are considered in relation to the issue of representativeness in material selection. The phases of implementation of CGT compilation are presented in detail. Finally, the larger implications of the project are detailed and applications, as well as prospects for further development, are outlined. Special mention is made of linguistic research papers on aspects of Greek that have used CGT data.

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