Ukrainian Grasslands Database

Ukrainian Regionalism Intensification: forces behind

Employee involvement in Ukrainian companies

This paper examines the hypothesis that the introduction of Western quality standards has brought some development of employee involvement in Ukrainian manufacturing and service companies and analyses the consequences for managements’ use of the institutions of employee representation. The subject is pursued through eight case studies, four in a test and four in a control group. Quality develop...

Political patronage in Ukrainian banking∗

This paper empirically investigates the link between political patronage and bank performance for Ukraine during 2003Q3–2005Q2. We find significant differences between politically affiliated and non-affiliated banks. The data suggest that affiliated banks have significantly lower interest rate margins and increase their capitalization. Furthermore, we show that the level of activity of affiliat...

Modeling Derivational Morphology in Ukrainian

We report on a study applying compositional distributional semantic models (CDSMs) to a set of Ukrainian derivational patterns. Ukrainian is an interesting language as it is morphologically rich, and low-resource. Our study aims at resolving inconsistent results from previous studies which employed CDSMs for derivation; we provide evidence for a cross-lingual advantage of CBOW over NMF represen...

Pars/u for Windows: the World's First Commercial English-ukrainian and Ukrainian-english Machine Translation System

The paper describes the PARS/U Ukrainian-English bidirectional MT system by Lingvistica '93 Co. PARS/U translates MS Word and HTML files as well as screen Helps. It features an easy-to-master dictionary updating program, which permits the user to customize the system by means of running subject-area oriented texts through the MT engine. PARS/U is marketed in Ukraine and North America. 1. Backgr...