Surmiran Newspaper Corpus

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Release Date: 12/22/2025

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2.9 million tokens in the Surmiran variety of Romansh from the daily newspaper “La Quotidiana”.

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Description

Articles in Surmiran, published in the Romansh daily newspaper La Quotidiana between 1997 and 2008. The texts in Surmiran were automatically extracted from a mixed Romansh newspaper corpus using a Support Vector Machine trained on a smaller, manually labeled dataset.

To the extent possible under law, the newspaper’s publisher Somedia has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this corpus. This work is published from Switzerland.

Language variantIETF BCP47 language codeCorpus size
Rumantsch Surmiranrm-surmiran2.9 million tokens

Sample

paragraph_idpublication_yeartext
rm_quotidiana.0528541997La radunanza communala da Bravuogn ò approbo pigl project dalla furniziun d’ava ed electricitad tranter Preda e Naz en credit da 153 000 francs. Venavant on las votantas ed igls votants da Bravuogn concedia en credit supplementar pigl project d’en aquaduct tgi vign duvro pigl scopo da produtgier electricitad sen l’alp Tisch. Igl credit supplementar monta a 64 000 francs. Ultra da chegl ò decidia la radunanza da contribueir alla fundaziun Mario Gregori-Geeser en amprest da 1,5 milliuns francs. Chest amprest duess sustigneir ena finanziaziun favorevla pertutgont igl project d’ena tgesa da vigls a Bravuogn. Venavant on chels da Bravuogn approbo la revisiun digls statuts digl register funsil Casti. Mademamaintg vo an vigour la revisiun digl urden dalla scola da Bravuogn. Ultra da chegl on las votantas ed igls votants detg ea alla revisiun digl reglamaint da prompiers. Igl punct culminont da chesta revisiun è tenor Hugo Fisch, igl mastral da Bravuogn, tg’igl sarvetsch da pompiers vala scu obligatoric er per las donnas.
rm_quotidiana.0959062005Per la donna da 31 onns, tgi magna ena praxis da massascha, mamma da dus unfants pitschens s’anclei chegl betg da sasez, ma ella vigna sustigneida dalla famiglia, ò ella declero, schiglio niss ella betg da metter tot sot en tetg. Per chest anviern vegia ella anc previa las cursas dalla Nagiadegna, Surselva ed igl maraton digl Giura. Tschintg fidevels on anc mai mancanto Ensatge colliescha Ernst-Peter Huber (Frauenfeld), Franz Bitzi (Zizers), Ruedi Zuber (Coira), Stefan Durisch (Panadoz) ed Urs Baselgia da Lantsch. Els on anc mai mancanto chella cursa e dumengia èn els partias, sen invitaziun digl CO e per angraztgamaint per lour fidevladad per la 20avla geda alla cursa. Igl pi svelt digl quintet è sto Urs Baselgia da Lantsch cun en taimp da 1.03.05 malgro tg’igls amprems kilometers seian betg ias schi bagn, ò el managea, ed ainta Lantsch vegia el anc fatg ena cupetga. Ma plascheir vegia el er dalla rangaziun da sies frar Arno tgi seia nia cun igl 17avel rang gist angal per pac avant el.