CONTENTS

Copyright5
Preface6
Dan Tufis, Poul Andersen
Breaking the Language Barrier: Towards a Multilingual Information Society in Europe8
Jan Roukens
Cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe in Language Engineering12
Poul Andersen
Language Resources for Language Technology 20
Wolfgang Teubert
Corpora and Corpus-Based Morpho-Lexical Processing29
Dan Tufiº, Ana-Maria Barbu, Vasile Pătraºcu, Georgiana Rotariu, Camelia Popescu
Estimating Conditional Probabilities and Digram Statistical Structure in Printed Romanian44
Adriana Vlad, Adrian Mitrea
CONCORD - Software System for Concordances of Romanian Poetical Texts55
Sanda Cherata
SILEX - A Lexico-Morphological Software for Romanian63
Teodor Vuscan, Emma Tamâianu, Sanda Cherata
Lexicography at the "Iorgu Iordan" Institute of Linguistics: The Dictionary of the Romanian Language (DLR) and the Contrastive Dictionary of Synonyms, Analogies and Associations68
Marius Sala, Ion Dănăilă
A Formalization Model of the Romanian Morphology 72
Luciana Peev, Lidia Bibolar, Jodal Endre
Romanian Lexicon: Tools, Implementation, Usage 78
Svetlana Cojocaru
A Reversible and Reusable Morpho-Lexical Description of Romanian83
Dan Tufiº, Ana-Maria Barbu
GULiveR: Generalized Unification Based LR Parser for Natural Languages94
Mihai Ciocoiu, Stefan Bruda
Structures for a Thesaurus of Technical Terminology105
Alexandru Timotin, Florin-Teodor Tănăsescu
Machine Translation121
Walther von Hahn
Considerations on the Localization of Software Products for Management Information Systems by Means of a Modern Localization Tool 128
Iulia Tufiº, Attila Feher, Radu Magda
Speech Technology: a Look into the Future 133
Peter Roach
Text-to-Speech Synthesis for Romanian Language: Present and Future Trends139
Corneliu Burileanu, Eugeniu Oancea, Mihai Radu, Dragos Burileanu, Jănel Arhip, Laurentiu Vasilescu
Dealing with Prosody. A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Approach151
Maria-Mirela Petrea, Dan Cristea
A Text-to-Speech System for the Romanian Language 163
Attila Ferencz, Diana Zaiu, Maria Ferencz, Teodora Rațiu, Gavril Toderean
A Unification-Based Model for Speech Generation 167
Amalia Todiraºcu
Speech Technology Research at Computer Science Department, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara174
Marian Boldea
Results on Automatic Speech Recognition in Romanian 178
Mircea Giurgiu
Database of the Romanian Language Phonetics and Phonology188
Felicia ªerban, Dana Bucerzan, Luciana Peev, Lidia Bibolar
About the Authors195


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