In this paper we describe the creation of large scale linguistic resources for Russian language. Internet/intranet system architecture was developed to make a large volume of Russian language lexical information, corpora (texts) and knowledge base (Russian WordNet) available to the system at development and/or run time. There are four linguistic counterparts, corresponding to the major categori...

This paper describes corpora collection activity for building large machine translation systems for Latvian e-Government platform. We describe requirements for corpora, selection and assessment of data sources, collection of the public corpora and creation of new corpora from miscellaneous sources. Methodology, tools and assessment methods are also presented along with the results achieved, cha...

This paper summarises the tools provided within Festvox[1], a freely available software suite for creation and analyses of large scale speech corpora for enabling research, development and instruction in speech technologies.

We present an overview of the Crúbadán project, the aim of which is the creation of text corpora for a large number of under-resourced languages by crawling the web.

The algorithm of the creation texts parallel corpora was presented. The algorithm is based on the use of "key words" in text documents, and on the means of their automated translation. Key words were singled out by means of using Russian and Ukrainian morphological dictionaries, as well as dictionaries of the translation of nouns for the Russian and Ukrainianlanguages. Besides, to calculate the...

The present paper reports on the creation of German unit selection voices from corpora which had been recorded and annotated previously in the BITS project. We describe the unit selection mechanism of our MARY TTS platform, as well as the tools for creating a synthesis voice from a speech corpus, and their application to the creation of German unit selection voices from the BITS corpora. Becaus...

Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) relies on the availability of rich parallel corpora. However, in the case of under-resourced languages or some specific domains, parallel corpora are not readily available. This leads to under-performing machine translation systems in those sparse data settings. To overcome the low availability of parallel resources the machine translation community has rec...

This paper maps the possibilities of using existing corpus tools to acquire definitions for Czech in an automatic way. It compares definitions from Dictionary of contemporary Czech (Slovník současné češtiny pro školu a veřejnost) and data acquired using Thesaurus and Word sketch in corpus czTenTen12.

We describe, and make public, large-scale language resources and the toolchain used in their creation, for fifteen medium density European languages: Catalan, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish. To make the process uniform across languages, we selected tools that are either language-independent or e...

The creation of semantically annotated corpora has lagged dramatically behind. As a result, the need for such resources has now become urgent. Several initiatives have been launched at the international level in the last years, however, they have focussed almost entirely on English and not much attention has been dedicated to the creation of semantically annotated Dutch corpora. The Flemish-Dut...