Ludmila Malahov


2017

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A Diachronic Corpus for Romanian (RoDia)
Ludmila Malahov | Cătălina Mărănduc | Alexandru Colesnicov
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language technology for Digital Humanities in Central and (South-)Eastern Europe

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.

2011

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Creation and Development of the Romanian Lexical Resources
Elena Boian | Constantin Ciubotaru | Svetlana Cojocaru | Alexandru Colesnicov | Ludmila Malahov | Mircea Petic
Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2011