Romanian is a Eastern - Romance language, that developed in Southeastern Europe during the 5th-8th centuries. Presently, it is spoken by approximately 24 – 26 million people as a native language and about 4 million people as a secondary language. Romanian is the official language in Romania, the Rep. Of Moldova, and parts of Serbia and Greece, and it is also spoken within communities of Romanian and Moldovan immigrants in the countries of the European Union, the United States, Canada and Australia.
A corpus is essentially a collection of written text, transcribed spoken language, a combination of both, or transcribed video recordings of signed language samples.
- Monitor corpus
- written data
- ~ 5,500,000 words
- spoken data
- ~ 100,000 words of transcrived spoken data -all audio associated with the transcribed data
- written data
- 16 registers
- spoken data
- 2 registers
- The corpus data come (currently) from 381 authors
- the metadata associated with each file contains the author's name, gender, language, and the BRC information.
We would like to thank Kenji Sagae, Ph.D., for suggestions and comments during the data collection. Aishwarya Jaggannath, Luci Sanchez Ortega, Victoria Boyd, Doina Midrigan and Diana Malancea for helping with data collection and data computerization.
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