A few weeks ago I wrote about building the Romanian NLP API that should already exist. Today Phase 1 is live.

What's callable right now:

• GET /conjugate/{verb} — full conjugation table across all moods and tenses, including perfect simplu and viitor I
• GET /lookup/{word} — definitions from DEXonline (DEX '09, MDA2, DLRLC), HTML stripped, source attributed
• GET /inflect/{word} — basic inflection info extracted from dictionary headers
• POST /difficulty — word validation against standard Romanian dictionaries

Free tier: 1,000 requests/day, no credit card, no account required for anonymous use (10 req/day without a key).

Try it: https://api.lexicro.com/docs

The interactive Swagger UI is live — you can call every endpoint directly from the browser without writing any code.

What's next (Phase 2): Fine-tuning bert-base-romanian-cased-v1 for morphological analysis — the POST /analyze endpoint that returns lemma, POS, case, gender, number, person, and tense per token. That's the hard part. Building in public — feedback still very welcome.

→ Original announcement: https://dev.to/peterabolins/building-the-romanian-nlp-api-that-should-already-exist-2gg7
→ GitHub: https://github.com/LexicRo/lexicro