Corpora and Processing Tools for Non-standard Contemporary and Diachronic Balkan Slavic

Teodora Vukovic, Nora Muheim, Olivier Winistörfer, Ivan Šimko, Anastasia Makarova, Sanja Bradjan

Abstract
The paper describes three corpora of different varieties of BS that are currently being developed with the goal of providing data for the analysis of the diatopic and diachronic variation in non-standard Balkan Slavic. The corpora includes spoken materials from Torlak, Macedonian dialects, as well as the manuscripts of pre-standardized Bulgarian. Apart from the texts, tools for PoS annotation and lemmatization for all varieties are being created, as well as syntactic parsing for Torlak and Bulgarian varieties. The corpora are built using a unified methodology, relying on the pest practices and state-of-the-art methods from the field. The uniform methodology allows the contrastive analysis of the data from different varieties. The corpora under construction can be considered a crucial contribution to the linguistic research on the languages in the Balkans as they provide the lacking data needed for the studies of linguistic variation in the Balkan Slavic, and enable the comparison of the said varieties with other neighbouring languages.
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R19-2010
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Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop Associated with RANLP 2019
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September
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2019
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Venelin Kovatchev, Irina Temnikova, Branislava Šandrih, Ivelina Nikolova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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62–68
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https://aclanthology.org/R19-2010
DOI:
10.26615/issn.2603-2821.2019_010
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Teodora Vukovic, Nora Muheim, Olivier Winistörfer, Ivan Šimko, Anastasia Makarova, and Sanja Bradjan. 2019. Corpora and Processing Tools for Non-standard Contemporary and Diachronic Balkan Slavic. In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop Associated with RANLP 2019, pages 62–68, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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Corpora and Processing Tools for Non-standard Contemporary and Diachronic Balkan Slavic (Vukovic et al., RANLP 2019)
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