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The Internet Language Reference Book was created with support from project no. 1ET200610406, Internet Language Consultation Centre. The following Czech Language Institute staff members took part in its development: Anna Černá, Jan Chromý, Hana Konečná, Hana Mžourková, Markéta Pravdová, Martin Prošek, Kamila Smejkalová, Ivana Svobodová and Ludmila Uhlířová.
From 2013 to 2015, the Internet Language Reference Book team was supported through project no. LM2010013 LINDAT-CLARIN, Institute for Analysis, Processing and Distribution of Linguistic Data; team members: Martin Beneš, Anna Černá, Ondřej Dufek, Klára Dvořáková, Jakub Kopecký, Adam Kříž, Petr Lozan, Markéta Pravdová, Hana Prokšová, Martin Prošek, Kamila Smejkalová, Ivana Svobodová and Veronika Štěpánová.
From 2016 to 2019, the Internet Language Reference Book team was supported through project no. LM2015071, LINDAT/CLARIN, Language Research Infrastructure in the Czech Republic; team members: Barbora Martinkovičová, Markéta Pravdová and Ivana Svobodová.
Since 2019, Internet Language Reference Book data have been used in project no. TL02000146, Web-based Corrector of Spelling, Grammar and Typography for Czech, implemented by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic.
Since 2020, the Internet Language Reference Book team has been supported through project no. LM2018101, LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ, Digital Research Infrastructure for Language Technology, the Arts and Humanities; team members: Barbora Martinkovičová, Markéta Pravdová and Anna Vrbová.
Since its launch, the Internet Language Reference Book has been operated by the staff of the Natural Language Processing Centre at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University (Dana Hlaváčková, Karel Pala and Pavel Šmerk). It is the first language guide of its kind. The reference book has two parts: a dictionary and an explanatory section. Please send any comments or suggestions related to the dictionary or explanatory sections to the following e-mail address: poradna@ujc.cas.cz.
The explanatory section of the Internet Language Reference Book was expanded extensively during development of the book edition. The first edition was published by Academia publishers as the Academic Vade Mecum of the Czech Language in February 2014 with an endorsement from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. It won Academia’s 2014 Bestseller of the Year award and first place in the 2014 Czech Bestseller competition in the Adult Academic and Non-fiction Literature category. In May 2019, Academia published a second, revised and supplemented edition of the Academic Vade Mecum of the Czech Language, once again with an endorsement from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
