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This article gives a general overview of five AI language-related projects that address contemporary Romanian language, in both textual and speech form, language related applications, as well as collections of old historic documents and medical archives. Namely, these projects deal with: the creation of a contemporary Romanian language text and …...

The paper presents the Public Multilingual Knowledge Management Infrastructure (PMKI) action launched by the European Commission (EC) to promote the Digital Single Market in the European Union (EU). PMKI aims to share maintainable and sustainable Language Resources making them interoperable in order to support language technology industry, and public administrations, …...

Forty years ago the linguist Dr. Christian Lehmann developed a framework for documenting linguistic terms, concepts and bibliographic data that resulted in the LiDo Terminological and Bibliographical Database (LiDo TBD). Since 2006 students and linguistic researchers benefit from the data by looking it up on the Web. Even though, the …...

Online media are ubiquitous and consumed by billions of people globally. Recently, however, several phenomena regarding online media have emerged that pose a severe threat to media consumption and reception as well as to the potential of manipulating opinions and, thus, (re)actions, on a large scale. Lumped together under the …...

We present LODeXporter, a novel approach for exporting Natural Language Processing (NLP) results to a graph-based knowledge base, following Linked Open Data (LOD) principles. The rules for transforming NLP entities into Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples are described in a custom mapping language, which is defined in RDF Schema (RDFS) …...

In this paper, we describe Teanga, a linked data based platform for natural language processing (NLP). Teanga enables the use of many NLP services from a single interface, whether the need was to use a single service or multiple services in a pipeline. Teanga focuses on the problem of NLP …...

The paper addresses the Polish version of SimLex-999 which we extended to contain not only measurement of similarity but also relatedness. The data was translated by three independent linguists; discrepancies in translation were resolved by a fourth person. The agreement rates between the translators were counted and an analysis of …...

State-of-the-art speech recognition systems rely heavily on three basic components: an acoustic model, a pronunciation lexicon and a language model. To build these components, a researcher needs linguistic as well as technical expertise, which is a barrier in low- resource domains. Techniques to construct these three components without having expert …...

Idiomatic expressions are problematic for most sentiment analysis approaches, which rely on words as the basic linguistic unit. Compositional solutions for phrase sentiment are not able to handle idioms correctly because their sentiment is not derived from the sentiment of the individual words. Previous work has explored the importance of …...

We started to construct a database of synonymous expressions of Japanese “Verb + Verb” compounds semi-automatically. Japanese is known to be rich in compound verbs consisting of two verbs joined together. However, we did not have a comprehensive Japanese compound lexicon. Recently a Japanese compound verb lexicon was constructed by …...

EcoLexiCAT is a web-based tool for the terminology-enhanced translation of specialized environmental texts for the language combination English-Spanish-English. It uses the open source version of the web-based CAT tool MateCat and enriches a source text with information from: (1) EcoLexicon, a multimodal and multilingual terminological knowledge base on the environment …...

Medical texts such as electronic health records are necessary for medical AI development. Nevertheless, it is difficult to use data directly because medical texts are written mostly in natural language, requiring natural language processing (NLP) for medical texts. To boost the fundamental accuracy of Medical NLP, a high coverage dictionary …...

Signbank is a web application that was originally built to support the Auslan Signbank on-line web dictionary, it was an Open Source re-implementation of an earlier version of that site. The application provides a framework for the development of a rich lexical database of sign language augmented with video samples …...

We present the SB-CH corpus, a novel Swiss German corpus with annotations for sentiment analysis. It consists of more than 200,000 phrases (approx. 1 Mio tokens) from Facebook comments and online chats. Additionally, we provide sentiment annotations for almost 2000 Swiss German phrases. We describe the methodologies used in the …...

This paper describes a small but unique digitized collection of medieval Latin charters. This collection consists of 57 charters of 7 types illustrating various purposes of issuance by the Royal Chancellery. Sections in these documents were manually annotated for deeper analysis of the structure of issued charters. This paper also …...

The European digital research infrastructure CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) is building a Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure (KSI) to ensure that existing knowledge and expertise is easily available both for the CLARIN community and for the humanities research communities for which CLARIN is being developed. Within the Knowledge Sharing …...

We develop a post-processing system to efficiently correct errors from noisy optical character recognition (OCR) in a 2.7 million word Faroese corpus. 7.6% of the words in the original OCR text contain an error; fully manual correction would take thousands of hours due to the size of the corpus. Instead, …...

A distributional semantics model — also known as word embeddings — is a major asset for any language as the research results reported in the literature have consistently shown that it is instrumental to improve the performance of a wide range of applications and processing tasks for that language. In …...

In this paper we describe the work towards developing new resources and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for the Galician language. First, a new corpus, manually revised, for POS tagging and lemmatization is described. Second, we present a new manually annotated corpus for Named Entity tagging for Galician. Third, we …...

This paper describes the development of a computational model of the morphology of Northern Haida based on finite state machines (FSMs), with a focus on verbs. Northern Haida is highly endangered, and a member of the isolate Haida macrolanguage, spoken in British Columbia and Alaska. Northern Haida is a highly-inflecting …...