korpusami

Korpusami is the instrumental plural form of the Polish noun korpus, meaning a corpus or body of texts used for linguistic research. In linguistics, a korpus (plural korpusy) refers to a structured collection of authentic language data, usually labeled or annotated to facilitate analysis. The instrumental form korpusami is used when describing actions performed with corpora, for example posługiwać się korpusami (to make use of corpora).

Korpora are built by collecting texts from various sources, digitizing them if needed, and applying annotation layers such as part-of-speech tagging, lemmatization, syntactic parsing, or semantic tagging. They can be general, containing broad language samples, or specialized, focusing on particular domains (law, medicine) or learner language. They may be balanced or unbalanced, tagged or plain text, and can include metadata like date, genre, speaker, or author.

In research, korpusami provide empirical evidence for frequency studies, collocations, word senses, pragmatics, and style variation. They enable tools like concordancers, frequency lists, and automatic NLP pipelines. In Polish contexts, major resources include the Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego (NKJP), among others, and web- or spoken-language corpora.

Access to korpusami ranges from publicly available datasets to licensed resources, with ethical and copyright considerations. Researchers must consider representativeness, sampling bias, annotation schemes, and data licensing when designing studies.