A Diachronic Corpus for Romanian (RoDia)

Ludmila Malahov, Cătălina Mărănduc, Alexandru Colesnicov


Abstract
This paper describes a Romanian Dependency Treebank, built at the Al. I. Cuza University (UAIC), and a special OCR techniques used to build it. The corpus has rich morphological and syntactic annotation. There are few annotated representative corpora in Romanian, and the existent ones are mainly focused on the contemporary Romanian standard. The corpus described below is focused on the non-standard aspects of the language, the Regional and the Old Romanian. Having the intention to participate at the PROIEL project, which aligns oldest New Testaments, we annotate the first printed Romanian New Testament (Alba Iulia, 1648). We began by applying the UAIC tools for the morphological and syntactic processing of Contemporary Romanian over the book’s first quarter (second edition). By carefully manually correcting the result of the automated annotation (having a modest accuracy) we obtained a sub-corpus for the training of tools for the Old Romanian processing. But the first edition of the New Testament is written in Cyrillic letters. The existence of books printed in the Old Cyrillic alphabet is a common problem for Romania and The Republic of Moldova, countries where the Romanian is spoken; a problem to solve by the joint efforts of the NLP researchers in the two countries.
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W17-8101
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language technology for Digital Humanities in Central and (South-)Eastern Europe
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September
Year:
2017
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Varna
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RANLP
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INCOMA Inc.
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1–9
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URL:
http://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-046-5_001
DOI:
0.26615/978-954-452-046-5_001
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Ludmila Malahov, Cătălina Mărănduc, and Alexandru Colesnicov. 2017. A Diachronic Corpus for Romanian (RoDia). In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language technology for Digital Humanities in Central and (South-)Eastern Europe, pages 1–9, Varna. INCOMA Inc..
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A Diachronic Corpus for Romanian (RoDia) (Malahov et al., RANLP 2017)
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