Annotating Mood, Tense and Voice in Czech Corpora

Tomáš Jelínek

doi:10.2478/jazcas-2025-0015

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Annotating Mood, Tense and Voice in Czech Corpora

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

Volume 76 (2025): Issue 1 (June 2025)

By: Tomáš Jelínek

Open Access

|Nov 2025

Abstract

In the corpora of the Czech National Corpus, the verbtag attribute was introduced for annotating the mood, voice, person, and tense of both simple and compound verb forms. This article presents this attribute and the process of its automatic annotation. We then show an example of the use of verbtag in corpus research by comparing five different text genres in terms of verbal categories expressed in this attribute.

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Articles in this issue

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0015 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4287 | Journal ISSN: 0021-5597

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Language: English

Page range: 167 - 176

Published on: Nov 27, 2025

Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

Keywords:

Czech morphology,

verbs,

mood,

tense,

automatic annotation

Related subjects:

Linguistics and semiotics,

Theoretical frameworks and disciplines,

Linguistics, other

© 2025 Tomáš Jelínek, published by Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics
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Volume 76 (2025): Issue 1 (June 2025)