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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear Mihai,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Both the JRC-Acquis parallel corpus and
the DGT-Translation Memory contain Romanian texts. However, they are not speech
transcriptions. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You can find more information on our
website and also download them from there:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> <a
href="http://langtech.jrc.it/">http://langtech.jrc.it/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>JRC-Acquis</span></b>
has both full texts in 22 languages (including Romanian) and ~sentence
alignments for all 21 language pairs involving Romanian. The Romanian part of
the JRC-Acquis consists of about 20 Million words. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>DGT-TM</span></font></b><font
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:navy'> is a
Translation Memory involving the same 22 languages, i.e. it is a loose collection
of translation units (mostly sentences). From these, the full text cannot be
reconstructed, but the added value compared to JRC-Acquis is that the cross-lingual
sentence alignments have been verified manually. The size of the Romanian part is
650,000 translation units (~sentences).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ralf<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=1 color=gray
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:gray;font-weight:bold'>Ralf Steinberger</span></font></b><font size=1
color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:gray'> (</span></font><font size=1 color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span
lang=DE style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:gray'><a
href="mailto:Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it" title="mailto:Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it"><font
color=gray><span lang=EN-GB style='color:gray'><span
title="mailto:Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it"><span
title="mailto:Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it"><span
title="mailto:Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it"><span
title="mailto:Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it">Ralf.Steinberger@jrc.it</span></span></span></font></span></span></a></span></font><font
size=1 color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS";color:gray'>) <br>
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)<br>
IPSC - SeS - Language Technology (</span></font><font size=1
color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:gray'><a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/"
title="http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://www.jrc.it/langtech"><font size=1
color=gray><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:gray'><span
title="http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://www.jrc.it/langtech"><span
title="http://langtech.jrc.it/"><span title="http://langtech.jrc.it/"><span
title="http://langtech.jrc.it/
http://www.jrc.it/langtech">http://langtech.jrc.it</span></span></span></font></span></span></a></span></font><font
size=1 color=gray face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:
"Comic Sans MS";color:gray'>) </span></font><font color=maroon face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial;color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><font size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>JRC-Acquis
Multilingual Parallel Corpus</span></font></u></b><font size=1 color=maroon
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>
(Version 3)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><b><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Freely available</span></font></b><font size=1
color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'> for research purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><b><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>22 languages</span></font></b><font size=1
color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish,
Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese,
Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene and Swedish.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Altogether<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> over 1 Billion words</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>Sentence <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>alignment for 231
language pairs</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:31.35pt;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'>For more information and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>download</span></b>,
see <a href="http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html"
title="http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html"><font color=purple><span
style='color:purple'>http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html</span></font></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#993366" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#993366'> </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon'>The <b><u><span style='font-weight:bold'>JRC’s
Language Technology group</span></u></b> specialises in the development of
highly multilingual text analysis tools and in cross-lingual applications. Many
applications are accessible online, e.g.:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font size=2
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/"
title="http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/"><font color=purple><span
style='color:purple'>NewsExplorer</span></font></a><font color=maroon><span
style='color:maroon'>: multilingual news aggregation and analysis (19
languages); allows to navigate the news over time and across languages; trend
analysis; collects information about people from the news; social network
detection.</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font size=2
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://press.jrc.it/" title="http://press.jrc.it/"><font color=purple><span
style='color:purple'>NewsBrief</span></font></a><font color=maroon><span
style='color:maroon'>: breaking news detection and display of the very latest
thematic news from around the world; email alerting (22+ languages).</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-14.15pt'><font size=2
face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=maroon face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:maroon'><a href="http://medusa.jrc.it/" title="http://medusa.jrc.it/"><font
color=purple><span style='color:purple'>MedISys</span></font></a> Medical
Information System: latest health-related news from around the world according
to themes and diseases (22+ languages).</span></font><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Tahoma'> corpora-bounces@uib.no
[mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Mihai
Daniel Frumuselu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 03 December 2007 18:31<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Corpora@uib.no<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Corpora-List] Romanian
language corpora</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Dear Madam/Sir,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I am currently looking for Romanian language corpora in electronic
format, particularly conversation transcriptions. A colleague from Linguist
List advised me to contact you. Do you happen to know there are corpora of
Romanian, either online or on a disk? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Thank you and best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Mihai Frumuselu<br clear=all>
<br>
<br>
</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>Mihai Daniel Frumuselu<br>
doktorand i lingvistik<br>
<br>
Björnkullaringen 28D<br>
141 51 Huddinge<br>
<br>
Tlf.: (08) 42 86 52 31 (hemma)<br>
0704 - 29 85 51 (mobil) <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.mihai.se">www.mihai.se</a>, <a
href="http://www.oru.se/hum/mihai_frumuselu">www.oru.se/hum/mihai_frumuselu</a><br>
<a href="http://www.mihaidaniel.myphotoalbum.com">www.mihaidaniel.myphotoalbum.com
</a><br>
e-post: <a href="mailto:mihai.frumuselu@gmail.com">mihai.frumuselu@gmail.com</a>
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