site.btaInstitute for Bulgarian Language Head Koeva: Our Cooperation with BTA Is Natural as Institutions Symbolizing Intellectual Heritage

Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) Director General Kiril Valchev and the Director of the Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin Institute for Bulgarian Language with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Prof. Svetla Koeva, signed a partnership agreement at the BTA Press Club in Sofia on Monday. Under the agreement, the Institute will provide BTA with a specialized artificial intelligence model capable of automatically identifying linguistic inconsistencies and errors, tailored to the specific requirements of the Agency’s editorial process and proofreading activities. 

In her speech, Prof. Koeva said it is only natural for BTA to collaborate with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Bulgarian Language, because these are institutions that are not only long-standing but also symbols of intellectual heritage.  "We can consider the Bulgarian News Agency a symbol of Bulgaria’s memory - of its past and present, and through its daily publications of its future as well, because through what is published by BTA, we preserve the memory of our people," noted Prof. Koeva.

In her words, it can similarly be said that the BAS is the spiritual centre of Bulgaria. It is the oldest institution in the country; it is the organization that brings together scientific institutes where, every day, scientists engage in research - quietly and modestly, added the Institute Director. 

"The Institute for Bulgarian Language is dedicated to researching, studying, and describing the current state of the Bulgarian language, as well as its history, the origins of its words and the language itself, its dialects, and, over the past 30 years, the Bulgarian language from the perspective of its computer processing," said Prof. Koeva. 

She reiterated that it is only natural for the Institute - through the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - or the two major organizations - BAS and BTA - to collaborate, because they are the intellectual leaders of Bulgaria.

"We are grateful to BTA for officially becoming a media partner - not only of BAS but also of the Institute for Bulgarian Language - and for giving us the opportunity to publicize our research through BTA publications," said Prof. Koeva. She explained that BTA’s data is important and extremely valuable to the Institute because it is verified by editors and is representative of the literary Bulgarian language. "BTA’s data is also important because it reflects the country’s cultural diversity, historical facts, and everything that distinguishes us as a nation and a people," explained Prof. Koeva.