Dimitar Trajanov


2024

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From Linguistic Linked Data to Big Data
Dimitar Trajanov | Elena Apostol | Radovan Garabik | Katerina Gkirtzou | Dagmar Gromann | Chaya Liebeskind | Cosimo Palma | Michael Rosner | Alexia Sampri | Gilles Sérasset | Blerina Spahiu | Ciprian-Octavian Truică | Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

With advances in the field of Linked (Open) Data (LOD), language data on the LOD cloud has grown in number, size, and variety. With an increased volume and variety of language data, optimizations of methods for distributing, storing, and querying these data become more central. To this end, this position paper investigates use cases at the intersection of LLOD and Big Data, existing approaches to utilizing Big Data techniques within the context of linked data, and discusses the challenges and benefits of this union.

2023

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Validation of Language Agnostic Models for Discourse Marker Detection
Mariana Damova | Kostadin Mishev | Giedrė Valūnaitė-Oleškevičienė | Chaya Liebeskind | Purificação Silvano | Dimitar Trajanov | Ciprian-Octavian Truica | Elena-Simona Apostol | Christian Chiarcos | Anna Baczkowska
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge

2022

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ISO-based Annotated Multilingual Parallel Corpus for Discourse Markers
Purificação Silvano | Mariana Damova | Giedrė Valūnaitė Oleškevičienė | Chaya Liebeskind | Christian Chiarcos | Dimitar Trajanov | Ciprian-Octavian Truică | Elena-Simona Apostol | Anna Baczkowska
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Discourse markers carry information about the discourse structure and organization, and also signal local dependencies or epistemological stance of speaker. They provide instructions on how to interpret the discourse, and their study is paramount to understand the mechanism underlying discourse organization. This paper presents a new language resource, an ISO-based annotated multilingual parallel corpus for discourse markers. The corpus comprises nine languages, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, German, European Portuguese, Hebrew, Romanian, Polish, and Macedonian, with English as a pivot language. In order to represent the meaning of the discourse markers, we propose an annotation scheme of discourse relations from ISO 24617-8 with a plug-in to ISO 24617-2 for communicative functions. We describe an experiment in which we applied the annotation scheme to assess its validity. The results reveal that, although some extensions are required to cover all the multilingual data, it provides a proper representation of discourse markers value. Additionally, we report some relevant contrastive phenomena concerning discourse markers interpretation and role in discourse. This first step will allow us to develop deep learning methods to identify and extract discourse relations and communicative functions, and to represent that information as Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD).