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Composition
EANC is designed as a comprehensive corpus with the objective to include as many Standard Eastern Armenian (SEA) texts as practicable. As of March 2008, EANC comprises well over 100 million tokens. Overall, we have been guided by the goal of comprehensive representation – all literary, scientific and oral texts available to us have been indexed for search. The only exception to this are certain widely-available texts, such as electronic press and legal documents, whose presence in the search results has been limited for the sake of balance among different genres. The total number of tokens available to queries is currently about 90 million.
Due to its comprehensive nature, EANC is inherently different from the "major" languages’ sample corpora such as Russian National Corpus or British National Corpus which choose their collections selectively. BNC additionally imposes a limit on the number of words per document, truncating particularly long texts. EANC, on the other hand, includes a great majority of all extant East Armenian literary texts. In this respect, EANC is similar to Czech National Corpus or Slovak National Corpus.
The written discourse subcorpus of EANC includes 1,039 fiction texts, both prose and poetry (including 184 translated fiction titles), 6,514 newspaper issues and a sizeable collection of scientific and other nonfiction texts.
The SEA oral discourse subcorpus (1.84 million tokens) is an important structural element of EANC, comprised of spontaneous dialogs, task-oriented interviews, TV talk shows, films, and other audio recordings, all transcribed for EANC.
Each of the 8,113 document entries in EANC is labeled by metatext information specifying genre and other bibliographic details (e.g.: date of creation/publication, name of the author, etc.).
| EANC Composition |
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Written discourse |
# tokens |
% EANC |
# of docs |
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| Fiction |
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prose: novel |
23 982 848 |
27,1% |
287 |
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prose: story |
5 318 243 |
6,0% |
104 |
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prose: play |
1 298 774 |
1,5% |
46 |
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prose subtotal |
30 599 865 |
34,6% |
437 |
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poetry |
2 459 421 |
2,8% |
106 |
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| Press |
35 258 177 |
39,9% |
3895 |
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| Nonfiction |
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science |
13 664 469 |
15,4% |
109 |
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essays, memoirs, official, religious |
4 629 156 |
5,2% |
320 |
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| Written discourse total |
86 611 088 |
97,9% |
4 867 |
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| Oral discourse |
# tokens |
% EANC |
# of docs |
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Oral spontaneous discourse (OSD) |
1 026 222 |
1,16% |
156 |
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Oral public discourse (OPD) |
753 061 |
0,85% |
172 |
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Oral task-oriented discourse (OTOD) |
65 552 |
0,07% |
16 |
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| Oral discourse total |
1 844 835 |
2,1% |
344 |
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| EANC Total |
88 455 923 |
100% |
5 211 |
Most of the texts in EANC have been acquired by scanning and optical character recognition of various printed sources. Some of fiction titles, however, as well as modern press have been downloaded from open internet archives (for more information and credits see Armenian texts online). All oral corpus consists of texts transcribed by EANC from 2006 to 2007 as well as by Victoria Khurshudyan in 2003 to 2005. The following chart represents EANC composition by type of source.
| EANC composition - tokens by source type |
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| Written discourse |
# tokens |
% EANC |
# tokens |
% EANC |
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downloaded |
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| Fiction |
32 036 156 |
97% |
1 023 130 |
3% |
| Press |
12 672 872 |
36% |
22 585 305 |
64% |
| Nonfiction |
16 438 291 |
90% |
1 855 334 |
10% |
| Written discourse total |
61 147 319 |
71% |
25 463 769 |
29% |
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| Oral discourse |
1 844 835 |
100% |
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