The HNC corpus includes samples of written language exclusively from printed resources or the Internet. The current corpus version does not comprise any texts of spoken discourse.

The documents included in the HNC corpus have been selected as cross sections of the Modern Greek language and are dated, in their majority, from 1990 and beyond. Documents with dialectic or other peculiarites were excluded and documents with high readability (high circulation newspapers, best selling books) were selected.

In order to demonstrate the full range of usage in a balanced way, texts were selected from a variety of sources, covering many genres and topics.

These documents have been legally provided to ILSP by their owners only for research purposes.

For every document included in the HNC corpus, the following information is provided:

• Bibliographic data
  All important elements for recognizing a document like the title, the author, the publisher, the translator (if it's a translated document) and the publication date.
• Classification data
  Required information for the classification of texts:
  1. their medium
  2. their genre and
  3. their topic/content.

In addition, there are further subcategories, such as detailed topic and detailed genre, which will be enriched gradually as texts are added to the corpus collection.

HNC documents are classified by their publication medium into the following categories:

• Book: every kind of book
• Internet: documents taken from the Internet
• Newspapers: daily or weekly newspapers
• Magazines: weekly, bi-monthly, monthly etc. publications
• Other: every type of document not included in the above, like:
  
  • informative or advertising leaflets and brochures/li>
  • reports, applications, legal documents, proceedings, announcements

The ratio of HNC texts in its current version according to their publishing medium is the following:

The classification of HNC documents based on their genre includes the following:

HNC documents based on their topic/content are classified in the following categories:

The integrated environment that has been developed offers the language learner the linguistic material and the necessary computational tools to process it, so that he/she can draw the information needed. These tools manipulate the texts and draw speech samples according to the defined search criteria.
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