The article reveals old Slavic layers in the Bulgarian names of elements Rhodope women’s traditional costume. research is based on 156 terminological units that prove existence numerous equivalents languages for outerwear, hairstyles and headscarves, aprons belts. largest share studied terms comes from general lexicon with or their etymons found all three groups languages. Some used region, how...

PURPOSE To identify potential physiological pathways to racial disparities in health outcomes, this study uses cortisol data collected from a community sample of 255 adolescents to examine whether there are racial/ethnic differences in cortisol slopes and levels across the waking day in naturalistic settings. METHODS This study uses salivary cortisol data (sampled five times per day over 3 da...

Othello was the most often-staged Shakespeare play on early Soviet stages, to a large extent because of its ideological utility. Interpreted with close attention racial conflict, this came symbolize, for theatres and audiences, destructive racism West in contrast egalitarianism. In first decades twenty-first century, however, it is not unusual Russian stage as white character, thus eliminating ...

BACKGROUND Ethnic diversity of the population in the region of Siberia suggests the existence of different germline mutations in the BRCA1/2 genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer in different ethnic populations, but spectrum of these mutations has not been studied. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to evaluate the frequency of the most common mutations BRCA1/2 (BRCA1 5382insC, BRCA1 185delAG, B...

This paper describes an architecture of a machine translation system designed primarily for Slavic languages. The architecture is based upon a shallow transfer module and a stochastic ranker. The shallow transfer module helps to resolve the problems, which arise even in the translation of related languages, the stochastic ranker then chooses the best translation out of a set provided by a shall...

The law-like relation between word and syllable length as part of the Menzerath law has been corrobated empirically in many different languages. As to South Slavic languages, we have the studies by Gajić (1950) and Grzybek (1999) on Croatian, and by Grzybek (2000) on Slovene. The aim of the present paper is first of all to provide empirical evidence of the Menzerath law for another South Slavic...

This paper reports on challenges and results in developing NLP resources for spoken Rusyn. Being a Slavic minority language, Rusyn does not have any resources to make use of. We propose to build a morphosyntactic dictionary for Rusyn, combining existing resources from the etymologically close Slavic languages Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak, and Polish. We adapt these resources to Rusyn by using vow...

There is great variation in the amount of NLP resources available for Slavic languages. For example, the Universal Dependency treebank (Nivre et al., 2016) has about 2 MW of training resources for Czech, more than 1 MW for Russian, while only 950 words for Ukrainian and nothing for Belorussian, Bosnian or Macedonian. Similarly, the Autodesk Machine Translation dataset only covers three Slavic l...