How to add a language to the linguistic resources map
Dr. Corina Forăscu ( "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi - Faculty of Computer Science & Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu” (RACAI) )
- 14:00 10th February 2015 ( week 4, Hilary Term 2015 )LTB
Why are languages and language technologies important in our societies?
How to deal with a less-studied language?
How to build and exploit new language resources?
How much time is needed? How to represent and use time (temporal information in NLP applications)?
How to efficiently use time in research and… personal life?...
These are questions to be answered having the main focus on Romanian.
Speaker bio
Corina Forăscu is an associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania and researcher in the Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu” (RACAI). She has a background (BSc) in Mathematics, and she completed a master in Computational Linguistics, and her PhD in Computer Science. She has published extensively in a variety of areas in the field of computational linguistics, including cross-language resources and evaluations in Question Answering, Summarization and Question Generation, discourse processing, with a special emphasis on temporal information in discourse. She has been involved in many research projects with Romanian and foreign partners, universities, industrial partners and organisations, in the domain of Natural Language Processing / Human Language Technologies and related to them. Corina Forăscu participated and (co-) organized inter/national conferences, workshops and summer schools.Share this:
