Balgarianovinite.com 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. BAS President Evelina Slavcheva attended the ceremony, which also marks the start of BTA’s new column “Write Correctly”.
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.
Valchev said that BTA will publish even more regularly information from the Institute for Bulgarian language regarding its numerous activities, and together they will begin promoting a column that appears regularly in the Az-buki weekly published by the Az-buki National Publishing House for education and science, with which the Agency also have a partnership agreement. “Almost a year ago, on the occasion of May 24, we presented here the booklet What Is Written Remains. Write Correctly! with 101 language notes by scholars from the Institute for Bulgarian Language, published by Az-buki. These are language notes that we hope to promote even further through BTA,” he added.
“We had a discussion with the Institute regarding the development by its researchers of a version of a large, specialized language model with artificial intelligence – approved for use in the Bulgarian language and with open-source rights – to be utilized by BTA. These are language notes that, in many cases, go beyond mere grammatical or spelling corrections; rather, they require a comprehensive understanding of the text to be applied,” explained Valchev.
“We are counting on the Institute for Bulgarian Language to assist us in implementing these language notes and any new ones that follow, by adapting existing open-source language models specifically for the Bulgarian language. Our goal is not to keep this product exclusively for BTA, but once it works well enough, to make it available to editors at other media outlets as well, in order to protect and promote the Bulgarian language, as required by the BTA Act,” said Valchev.
BTA will provide the Institute with archival materials a year back over which BTA holds exclusive rights – this includes all of BTA’s news reports from Bulgaria as well as those from its correspondents around the world. This is a massive database that enables the training of language models, Valchev noted. “We expect the first version of this language model to be operational by the end of May, but our goal is much greater – for it to remain operational in the coming years,” he explained.
BTA has partnership agreements with a number of BAS institutes, and to date the Agency has been publishing information from the Economic Research Institute at BAS on a relatively regular basis, Valchev noted. By comparison, ten years ago, in 2015, there was only one publication about the Institute for the entire year; last year there were 61, and in 2024 there were 64, he specified. He added that the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was among BTA’s first partners when cooperation agreements were signed.
The Institute for Bulgarian Language was established on May 15, 1942, as the BAS Bulgarian Dictionary Department. “Our first publication, which was released by the Home News department, dates back to October 20, 1947,” recalled Valchev. He presented Prof. Koeva, with excerpts from the rich history of the BTA archives, as well as issues of the LIK magazine. BTA and BAS Institute for Bulgarian Language Sign Partnership Agreement 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-03-30 15:26:39 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law