Korpusowe

Korpusowe is an adjective used in Polish to describe things related to a text corpus, or corpus-based research, especially in linguistics and language technology. It derives from the word korpus, meaning body or corpus, and denotes data, methods, or analyses that rely on large collections of texts that can be searched, annotated, and analyzed statistically. The term is commonly found in phrases such as korpusowe metody, korpusowe badania, or korpusowa analiza.

In linguistic practice, korpusowe approaches contrast with purely theoretical or rule-based methods. A key distinction is between corpus-based and corpus-driven research: corpus-based work uses pre-existing corpora and applies statistical techniques to derive findings, while corpus-driven research often aims to let patterns emerge from data with minimal theoretical constraints. Korpusowe data enable quantitative insights into frequency, collocations, syntax, semantics, and diachronic change.

Korpusy serve multiple purposes across linguistics and related fields. They support lexicography, terminology work, language teaching, and natural language processing, including tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, lemmatization, and concordance analysis. Polish korpusy, such as the Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego (NKJP), are widely used in research and education; many corpora are accessible online, though access levels vary from open to licensed.

Korpusowe studies typically involve annotated corpora (morphology, syntax, semantics), specialized query tools for corpus exploration, and statistical or computational methods for analysis. The term remains common in Polish scholarly discourse and is encountered in journals, textbooks, and conference presentations dealing with language data and computational linguistics.