Resources in Underrepresented Languages: Building a Representative Romanian Corpus (2020.lrec-1)
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Ludmila Midrigan - Ciochina, Victoria Boyd, Lucila Sanchez-Ortega, Diana Malancea_Malac, Doina Midrigan, David P. Corina
| Challenge: | Currently, the corpus has approximately 5,500,000 tokens originating from written text and 100,000 tokens of spoken language. |
| Approach: | They describe the process of creating a large and representative corpus in Romanian, a relatively under-resourced language with unique typological characteristics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus contains 5,500,000 tokens originating from written text and 100,000 tokens of spoken language. |
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