This paper responds to the great interest to humanities researchers who are concerned with the study of the Romanian language in its diachronic evolution: developing a set of tools allowing (semi-)automatic interpretative transcription of scanned Romanian documents written in Cyrillic, in print as well as manuscript forms. The corpus contains old data, belonging to the 19th20th centuries, in or...

This paper introduces the concept of temporal word analogies: pairs of words which occupy the same semantic space at different points in time. One well-known property of word embeddings is that they are able to effectively model traditional word analogies (“word w1 is to word w2 as word w3 is to word w4”) through vector addition. Here, I show that temporal word analogies (“wordw1 at time tα is ...

This paper explores three different methods of learning to map variant word form (dialectal or diachronic) to standard ones from a limited parallel corpus of standard and variant texts, given that a computational description of the standard morphology is available.

The present paper studies the problem of standardization Bulgarian within context emergence Balkan Sprachbund. Traditionally, is considered to be a part nation-building process, understood as codification orthographic and other linguistic norms in authoritative documents. As they are legally binding national collective, traditional view distinguishes texts from era before containing more dialec...

Abstract The term grammaticalization originally denoted a particular outcome of language change (lexis > morphology), then got expanded to practically all studies involving change, the processes that create such changes, and theory modeling these. These expansions have been challenged in literature as conceptually flawed. A usage-based analysis evolution concept culminates use “flag” approac...

This article offers an unpopular comparativistic method that does not fit into the previously known conceptual frameworks of comparative literature. In order to be more clearly distinguished from hermeneutic practices existing in comparativistics, a brief overview some basic views on subject literature has been made. Thus, it becomes clear we only ignore contactological aspect, but apply this a...