In recent years there has been an increasing interest in developing language resources and tools to process them, especially for languages with fewer resources. In this talk we will briefly overview the essentials of BLARK (Basic Language Resource Kit), focusing on Romanian - a less-studied language. We will present the linguistic technologies and resources that are mostly used in CL (Computational Linguistics), showcasing them for Romanian. A second part of the speech will be dedicated to temporal information - how to represent time, how to develop resources and tools to process temporal information in texts.

Bio: Corina Forascu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, and previously a researcher with the Romanian Academy Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest. She has a background (BSc) in Mathematics, a master in Computational Linguistics, and her PhD is 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. Currently she is a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Rochester, New York, USA.