The situation with regard to Russian language resources is fragmented and disorganized. For this reason, it is important to promote for Russian the development of its basic resources in one package that could be used for development of speech products. The paper presents a design of the Russian lexical databases, corpora and supporting tools (system for construction and support of lexical datab...

The aim of this paper is to determine the pitch contours Finns use when uttering yes/no questions in Russian. In addition, the pitch contours will be compared to native speech as well as subjected to native speaker evaluation. So far, there has been very little research on the prosody of Russian as a second language. L1 Finnish students are an interesting group to study because intonation in Fi...

BACKGROUND Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits federal funds recipients from providing care to limited English proficiency (LEP) persons more limited in scope or lower in quality than care provided to others. In 1999, the California Department of Mental Health implemented a "threshold language access policy" to meet its Title VI obligations. Under this policy, Medi-Cal agencies must...

Governments of all kinds have frequently and increasingly turned to tax amnesties as part of their fiscal programs. An amnesty typically allows individuals or firms to pay delinquent taxes without being subject to some or all of the financial and criminal penalties that the discovery of tax evasion normally brings. Tax amnesties are a controversial revenue-raising tool. Advocates emphasize the ...

The rich body of literature dealing with first language acquisition has been concerned, to a very large extent, with the unpacking of the notion “acquisition” into a set of simpler, smaller notions. This unpacking, in leading us to a better understanding of smaller problems, will hopefully eventually be followed by a recombination of the puzzle pieces so as to enrich the larger picture of langu...

We present our systems for the machine translation evaluation campaign of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) 2013. We submitted systems for three language directions: German-to-English, Russianto-English and English-to-Russian. The focus of our approaches lies on effective usage of the in-domain parallel training data. Therefore, we use the training data to tune p...

The problem of establishing transferable language structures is considered. The key idea is developing a synergistic approach combining semantic grammar rules with the machine learning mechanisms of grammar rules extraction from parallel text corpora. The predesigned rules are founded on the unified cognitive structures extracted from the systems of grammar categories of the Russian and English...

For a correct interpretation of the thematic roles of constituents of a sentence, the relation between those constituents has to be understood. For each language, a combination of specific interpretation cues leads to a correct understanding of a sentence, and one of the comprehension cues is most reliable. The speed and success rate of children in acquiring those cues most relevant for their l...

Visual archetypes from Russian Orthodox iconography shaped a widely understood visual vocabulary with politically important cultural meaning. Icons derived their symbolic authority from their status in Orthodox doctrine as divinely revealed sacred truth. Although the Bolsheviks who seized power in 1917 officially denounced organized religion, revolutionary artists nonetheless recycled iconic ar...