Magdalena Plamada

Magdalena Plamada, Dr.

Academic Associate

Portrait and Research Interests

I'm a research assistant currently working on the digitization of the Horizonte magazine, i.e. converting it into a trilingual (EN, FR, DE) corpus and enriching it with linguistic information.

I am also a technical specialist in the Atharvaveda Paippalada (AVP) project at the Department of Comparative Linguistics of the University of Zurich, whose aim it to develop a digital critical edition of selected books of the AVP.

Research interests:

Digital Humanities
Statistical Machine Translation
Speech synthesis

Education

2010-2017: PhD in Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich
2008‒2010: Master degree in Computational Linguistics at the Faculty of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania
2005–2008: Bachelor degree in Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer Science, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania
2007: Erasmus-semester at the Università degli Studi di Bari, Italia

Publications

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Publications

Plamada, Magdalena; Volk, Martin (2013). Mining for Domain-specific Parallel Text from Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013 - August 2013, 112-120.
Smith, Jason R; Saint-Amand, Herve; Plamada, Magdalena; Koehn, Philipp; Callison-Burch, Chris; Lopez, Adam (2013). Dirt cheap web-scale parallel text from the Common Crawl. In: 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013. Association for Computational Linguistics, 1374-1383.
Plamada, Magdalena; Volk, Martin (2012). Using parallel treebanks for machine translation evaluation. In: The 11th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Lisbon, Portugal, 30 November 2012 - 1 December 2012, 145-156.
Plamada, Magdalena; Volk, Martin (2012). Towards a Wikipedia-extracted alpine corpus. In: The Fifth Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora, Istanbul, Turkey, 26 May 2012 - 26 May 2012.
Jitca, M; Sennrich, R; Volk, Martin (2011). From historic books to annotated XML: Building a large multilingual diachronic corpus. In: Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2011, Hamburg, Germany, 28 September 2011 - 30 September 2011, 75-80.

Jitca, Doina; Apopei, Vasile; Jitca, Magdalena (2009). The F0 Contour Modelling as Functional Accentual Unit Sequences. In: International Journal of Speech Technology 12(2-3):75-82

Institut für Computerlinguistik

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