In this paper, we analyse the usage of multiword expressions (MWE) in Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We exploit the Moses SMT toolkit to train models for French-English and Czech-Russian language pairs. For each language pair, two models were built: a baseline model without additional MWE data and the model enhanced with information on MWE. For the French-English pair, we tried three me...

Every language has its characteristics and rules, though all languages share the same components like words, sentences, subject, verb, object and so on. Nevertheless, Chomsky suggested the theory of language acquisition in children instinctively through a universal grammar that represents a universal grammar for all human languages. Since it has its declaration, this theory has encountered crit...

In this paper we present the application of the SOMLib digital library system to a multilingual document corpus from the Russian Information Agency Novosti. News articles in Russian, English, and German are automatically organized into separate topic hierarchies using a novel unsupervised neural network, namely the Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map. Furthermore, machine translation is us...

A resource grammar is a standard library for the GF grammar formalism. It raises the abstraction level of writing domainspecific grammars by taking care of the general grammatical rules of a language. GF resource grammars have been built in parallel for eleven languages and share a common interface, which simplifies multilingual applications. We reflect on our experience with the Russian resour...

This paper presents a method of automatic construction extraction from a large corpus of Russian. The term ‘construction’ here means a multi-word expression in which a variable can be replaced with another word from the same semantic class, for example, a glass of [water/juice/milk]. We deal with constructions that consist of a noun and its adjective modifier. We propose a method of grouping su...

We describe the statistical machine translation system developed at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) for the Russian-English news translation task of the First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2016). Our submission is a phrase-based SMT system that tackles the morphological complexity of Russian through comprehensive use of lemmatization. The core of our lemmatization strateg...

Paper presents main results of a targeted MRIinvestigation of articulatory patterns of the Russian diphthongised (gliding) vowel phonemes, vowel /ɨ/ first and foremost. The investigation‟s relevance is assured by serious general discordance of opinions discussing articulatory patterns of diphthongised Russian vowel /ɨ/. Our research revealed critical differences in the vowel‟s articulatory dyna...

While several scholars have examined the influence of emotions on bilingual performance (Anooshian and Hertel 1994; Bond and Lai 1986; Javier and Marcos 1989) and second language learning and use (Arnold 1999; Schumann 1994, 1997, 1999), to date very little is known about ways in which bilinguals talk about emotions in their two languages. The present study investigates discursive construction ...