--- title: "Corpas Náisiúnta Na Gaeilge 2022-2029: A Project Overview" description: "The authors also describe the difficulty of securing licensed texts from publishers and news agencies, a copyright-aware… 3 references." authors: ["Mícheál J. Ó Meachair", "Úna Bhreathnach", "Kevin Scannell", "Michal Mechura", "Brian Ó Raghallaigh", "Gearóid Ó Cleircín"] year: 2026 venue: "Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora" source: "https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmlc-1.8/" doi: "10.63317/4ybzkgmrs3hd" licence: "CC BY-NC 4.0 (ELRA, LREC proceedings)" licence_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" summary_licence: "Elamur Cosmic License" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meachair-2026-corpas-naisiunta-na-gaeilge-2022/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meachair-2026-corpas-naisiunta-na-gaeilge-2022/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/26/) / Corpas Náisiúnta Na Gaeilge 2022-2029: A Project Overview # Corpas Náisiúnta Na Gaeilge 2022-2029: A Project Overview **Authors:** [Mícheál J. Ó Meachair](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/micheal-j-o-meachair/), Úna Bhreathnach, Kevin Scannell, [Michal Mechura](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michal-mechura/), Brian Ó Raghallaigh and Gearóid Ó Cleircín · **Year:** 2026 · **Venue:** [Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cmlc/) ([Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cmlc/2026/)) · **Publisher:** [European Language Resources Association (ELRA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/european-language-resources-association-elra/) · **Licence:** [CC BY-NC 4.0 (ELRA, LREC proceedings)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) **Links:** [Publisher's page](https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmlc-1.8/) · [PDF](https://aclanthology.org/2026.cmlc-1.8.pdf) · [DOI 10.63317/4ybzkgmrs3hd](https://doi.org/10.63317/4ybzkgmrs3hd) · [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/W7166552185) **Citations:** 0 citations (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14) ## Summary Irish is a low-resource language, and both researchers and the Irish-speaking community have lacked a large, balanced reference corpus. This overview from the Gaois research group at DCU describes Corpas Náisiúnta na Gaeilge (CNG), a national corpus of Irish covering 2000–2024. It combines edited print and online writing with spoken material from broadcasting, lectures, songs and stage drama. In Phase 1 (2022–2024), the team built the main corpus and three companion collections. They also launched the corpas.ie concordancing site, which runs on NoSketchEngine, and trained a part-of-speech tagger with UDPipe and the PAROLE tagset for Irish. Phase 2 (2025) enlarged the monitor and spoken corpora and refreshed the tagging and frequency data. Phase 3 (2026–2029) is set to bring in legislative and historical material. The authors also describe the difficulty of securing licensed texts from publishers and news agencies, a copyright-aware data-sharing policy, and their teaching and outreach work. The project gives Irish a lasting and legally careful infrastructure for linguistic and NLP research. ## Key points - Phase 1 corpus sizes: - CNG: 101 million words. - CGS (written, editorially processed texts only): 131 million words. - CGL (spoken): 9 million words. - CMG (monitor): about 1 million words per year. - Phase 2 added 1 million words to CMG for 2025 and 1 million words to CGL. It also updated the n-gram and word-frequency lists and corrected tagging across all corpora. These outputs went live on the website in Q1 2026. - The paper's table of outputs is garbled in the extracted text, but these items appear to be planned for Phase 3: - an English–Irish parallel corpus of Irish and EU legislation (69.3m Irish, 63.7m English words); - four more years of CMG data (4 million words); - the Bailiúchán na Scol (1937–1939) collection (10 million words). - Sharing is limited by copyright: - Word embeddings and n-grams are published on the website. - Bona fide researchers can request sentence-shuffled subsets, shuffled at least 1,000 times. - Spoken data and creative works are excluded from these subsets. - Training and outreach include: - the mandatory 10 ECTS MA module "Taighde Corpais"; - a project launch in November 2024; - a conference on Corpus Linguistics for the Languages of Ireland in November 2025, with 19 research presentations; - involvement in CLARIN-ERIC. *Our summary of the paper, in our own words — not its text. 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The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. ```bibtex @inproceedings{meachair2026corpas, title = {{Corpas Náisiúnta Na Gaeilge 2022-2029: A Project Overview}}, author = {Mícheál J. Ó Meachair, Úna Bhreathnach, Kevin Scannell, Michal Mechura, Brian Ó Raghallaigh and Gearóid Ó Cleircín}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora}, year = {2026}, doi = {10.63317/4ybzkgmrs3hd}, url = {https://doi.org/10.63317/4ybzkgmrs3hd} } ``` - [← previous CoreELM: An Open-Source Framework for Aligning Large Language Models to Embedding Spaces](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ondov-2026-coreelm-open-source-framework-aligning/) - [next → Corpora Generation for Urdu Grammatical Error Correction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahad-2026-corpora-generation-urdu-grammatical-error/) - [↑ back to papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/2026/page/26/) ## References 3 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet. 1. 2.2.1 Project launch 1 (November 29, 2024) In November 2024 we hosted a series where guest speakers came to Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU to launch our project. 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