We present here the largest publicly available corpus of Romanian. Its written component contains 1,257,752,812 tokens, distributed, in an unbalanced way, in several language styles (legal, administrative, scientific, journalistic, imaginative, memoirs, blogposts), in four domains (arts and culture, nature, society, science) and in 71 subdomains. The oral component consists of almost 152 hours of recordings, with associated transcribed texts. All files have CMDI metadata associated. The written texts are automatically sentence-split, tokenized, part-of-speech tagged, lemmatized; a part of them are also syntactically annotated. The oral files are aligned with their corresponding transcriptions at word-phoneme level. The transcriptions are also automatically part-of-speech tagged, lemmatised and syllabified. CoRoLa contains original, IPR-cleared texts and is representative for the contemporary phase of the language, covering mostly the last 20 years. Its written component can be queried using the KorAP corpus management platform, whereas the oral component can be queried via its written counterpart, followed by the possibility of listening to the results of the query, using an in-house tool.
@InProceedings{BARBU MITITELU18.423, author = {Verginica Barbu Mititelu and Dan Tufiș and Elena Irimia}, title = "{The Reference Corpus of the Contemporary Romanian Language (CoRoLa)}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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