Language Tools and Resources for Polish

This page contains a list of publicly available language tools and resources.

Written corpora and corpus-related tools

• National Corpus of Polish (NKJP),

  • NKJP-PodkorpusMilionowy-1.0.tgz, the manually annotated 1-million word subcorpus of the NJKP, available on GNU GPL v.3,

• IPI PAN Corpus,

• PWN Corpus,

• PELCRA Corpus,

• Dictionaries as Corpora,

• Polish language of the 1960s,

• PICLE corpus, the Polish sub-corpus of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE),

• IMPACT ground-truth data for selected Polish historical documents from PIONIER Digital Libraries Federation,

• Poliqarp, a corpus indexing and search engine,

• Anotatornia, a system for multi-level manual annotation of corpora,

• Smyrna, a simple, light-weight Polish concordancer.

Parallel corpora

• ParaSol, a parallel corpus of Slavic and other languages,

• PolUKR, a Polish-Ukrainian parallel corpus,

• OPUS, an open source parallel corpus (European Parliament, EMEA, KDE, movie subtitles),

• "1984", an annotated parallel corpus of George Orwell's "1984" in 15 languages, MULTEXT-East, v.4 (licensed download),

• InterCorp, a multilingual parallel corpus,

• Leeds collection of Internet corpora,

• LAGUN corpus,

• JRC-Acquis Multilingual Parallel Corpus,

• PSI collection of parallel corpora, a growing collection of parallel corpora pairing Polish with other european languages.

Spoken corpora

• The annotated corpus of spoken dialogues (LUNA project, corpus data available at the end of the page),

• AGH speech corpus, around 9 hours, word-annotated Polish speech corpus (AGH DSP),

• Audiovideo corpus of Polish speech (AGH DSP),

• The PELCRA conversational corpus of Polish. TEI P5-encoded transcriptions of 1.8 million words of conversational spoken Polish collected in the years 2001-2011 (within the PELCRA and NKJP projects) available under CC-BY-NC,

• NKJP search engine for spoken-conversational data.

Translation memories

• MyMemory, freely available multilingual TM,

• TAUS Data, a multilingual TM from the members of TAUS Data Association.

Morphological tools and resources

• Morfeusz SGJP, morphological analyser (Z. Saloni, W. Gruszczyński, M. Woliński, R. Wołosz),

• Index a tergo of Polish word forms (J. Tokarski, Z. Saloni),

• Morfologik, morphological analyser (M. Miłkowski, D. Weiss),

• SAM, morphological analyser (K. Szafran),

• UAM Text Tools (P. Obrębski, Z. Vetulani; see also http://utt.wmi.amu.edu.pl/trac/wiki/),

• MULTEXT-East, v.4, morphosyntactic specifications and documentation for 16 languages,

• KIPI->MTE, a converter from TaKIPI to MULTEXT-East morphosyntactic format (A. Radziszewski, N. Kotsyba),

• MACA, Morphological Analysis Converter and Aggregator (A. Radziszewski, T. Śniatowski),

• Lexical analyser and a Polish proof-reader (S. Galus),

• Neurosoft Gram (demo of a morphological analyser),

• Baza fleksyjna języka polskiego, inflection database of Polish words (W. Lubaszewski, B. Moskal, P. Pietras, P. Pisarek, T. Rokicka),

• Finite state utilities (J. Daciuk),

• Stempel, another stemmer (A. Białecki),

• WCCL, toolkit for morphosyntactic feature generation (A. Radziszewski, A. Wardyński, T. Śniatowski, P. Kędzia).

Taggers

• TaKIPI, a morphosyntactic tagger for Polish,

• PANTERA, a morphosyntactic tagger for Polish,

• WMBT, a morphosyntactic tagger for Polish.

Parsers, grammars, treebanks

• Świgra, a DCG parser,

• Spejd, a shallow parsing and disambiguation system,

• Dendrarium, a treebank development system (under development),

• A Treebank / Test Suite for Polish,

• Visualisation of parsing tree forests (Świdziński's grammar, Świgra, Morfeusz, Bień's syntactic spreadsheets) by Andrzej Zaborowski,

• Analizator syntaktyczny AS (M. Woliński),

• Formalny opis składniowy zdań polskich (S. Szpakowicz),

• Serwer LAS / Linguistic Analysis Server.

Machine-readable dictionaries

• plWordNet, Polish WordNet (M. Piasecki),

• Polish OpenThesaurus, słownik synonimów – a crowdsourced Polish thesaurus (M. Miłkowski),

• Słownik języka polskiego (d. alternatywny), Polish ispell dictionaries, along with some definitions and online form display.

• Sample morphosyntactic Polish lexicon, the MULTEXT-East morphosyntactic lexicons,

• Słownik składniowy języka polskiego (Z. Greń),

• N-gram model of Polish (AGH DSP),

• Nowy słownik angielsko-polski (T. Piotrowski, Z. Saloni),

• Polish OpenCYC (A. Pohl),

• Polish machine-generated dictionaries, available on Creative Commons (J. Kazojć),

• List of all Polish surnames, licence unknown, see further information on this resource,

• Gazetteer for Polish Named Entities (A. Savary, J. Piskorski).

Human-readable dictionaries

• Wielki Słownik Języka Polskiego,

• Wikisłownik,

• Słownik wyrazów obcych i zwrotów obcojęzycznych Władysława Kopalińskiego,

• Słownik synonimów i antonimów Piotra Żmigrodzkiego,

• Poliqarp for DjVu search engine for J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki. Dictionary of Polish. Warsaw 1900–1927,

• Poliqarp for DjVu search engine for S. Bąk, M. R. Mayenowa, F. Pepłowski (eds.). Dictionary of the 16th century Polish. Wrocław — Warszawa, 1966-???? (work in progress),

• Poliqarp for DjVu search engine for M. Samuel Bogumił Linde. Dictionary of Polish (2nd edition). Lwów 1854-1861,

• Poliqarp for DjVu search engine for B. Chlebowski, F. Sulimierski, W. Walewski (eds.), The Geographical Dictionary of the Polish Kingdom and other Slavic Countries, Warszawa 1880-1902.

Speech analysis and synthesis tools

• Skrybot, commercial speech recognition system (L. Pawlaczyk, P. Bosky),

• Ivona, commercial text-to-speech system (Expressivo),

• Acapela, text to speech demo,

• Synteza mowy polskiej, automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis demos, with background information (K. Szklanny),

• System syntezy mowy ciągłej (G. Demenko, S. Grocholewski),

• Polish MBROLA database (K. Szklanny, K. Marasek),

• SynTalk, commercial speech synthesis system (NeuroSoft),

• PrimeSpeech, commercial speech recognition systems,

• OrtFon, phonetic transcriber (AGH DSP),

• ASR, automatic speech recognition system for Polish (AGH DSP),

• Anotator, speech corpora anotator dedicated for Polish and focused on connecting existing resources (AGH DSP),

Machine translation demonstrations

• iTranslate4.eu (multiple languages, allows comparing translation engines),

• Translatica (EN-PL-EN, DE-PL-DE, RU-PL-RU), see also Poleng website with an experimental FR-PL-FR version,

• Bing Translator (multilingual),

• Google Translate (multilingual),

• InterTran (multilingual),

• LingvoBit (EN-PL-EN),

• Systran (EN-PL, PL-FR and some more),

• Esperantilo (integrated Esperanto editor, with MT for EO-PL-DE-EN-SV),

• Thetos (PL-Sign language).

Other

• Kolokacje, a Web crawler and collocation finder (A. Buczyński),

• WSDDE, a system for designing and performing Word Sense Disambiguation experiments (R. Młodzki et al.),

• Frazeo, a search engine and clusterer of news in Polish (P. Pęzik),

• Segment, a rule-based sentence tokenizer supporting SRX standard (J. Lipski; the Polish rules are available in LanguageTool project),

• Toki, a tokenizer supporting SRX standard, C++ library and toolkit (T. Śniatowski and A. Radziszewski)

• Translatica SRX sentence segmentation rules for Polish (LGPL)

• Lakon, a system for news summarization (master's thesis by A. Dudczak),

• SyMGIZA++, an extension of Giza++ that computes symmetric word alignment models,

• Multiservice, a sample interface for running NLP Web services for Polish,

• Hipisek, an experimental question answering system (M. Walas),

• Narzędzia dygitalizacji tekstów, Poliqarp for DjVu i inne programy,

• Nerf, a tool for named entity recognition, available on GNU GPL v.3.