Discussion: This paper explores the impact of the LIC experiences in Afghanistan and Chechnya on the transformation of the Russian State. It begins with a historical review that analyzes invasion motives and the subsequent impact on the people, the government and the Russian military. The analysis of the recent post-Soviet era reveals that the Russian transformation consists of three smaller tr...

Two major mechanisms of encoding telicity across languages are either marking the object as exhaustively countable or measurable, or utilizing a specific prefix on the verbal form. English predominantly uses the first mechanism, while Russian mostly utilizes the second. The learning task of an English speaker acquiring Russian, then, is two-fold: to learn each individual verb with its subset of...

This paper describes LIMSI’s submissions to the shared WMT’15 translation task. We report results for French-English, Russian-English in both directions, as well as for Finnish-into-English. Our submissions use NCODE and MOSES along with continuous space translation models in a post-processing step. The main novelties of this year’s participation are the following: for Russian-English, we inves...

This paper describes LIMSI’s submissions to the shared WMT’15 translation task. We report results for French-English, Russian-English in both directions, as well as for Finnish-into-English. Our submissions use NCODE and MOSES along with continuous space translation models in a post-processing step. The main novelties of this year’s participation are the following: for Russian-English, we inves...

The Russian Academy of Sciences was established on the order of the Emperor Peter I by the Decree of the Ruling Senate dated January 28 (February 8), 1724. The Academy was reinstated by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated November 21, 1991 as the supreme scientific institution of Russia (http://www. ras.ru). The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) is a civil self-governed ...

Russian-English bilingual and English monolingual participants were tested on the Picture-Word Interference task modified for use with an eye-tracker. Distractor words were 1) non-words in English, but viable phonological words in Russian, 2) control bigram matched non-word stimuli, and 3) English translations of the Russian words. Russian-English bilinguals looked at the phonological Russian w...

Recognition and interference of a nontarget language (Russian) during production in a target language (English) were tested in Russian-English bilinguals using eye movements and picture naming. In Experiment 1, Russian words drew more eye movements and delayed English naming to a greater extent than control nonwords and English translation equivalents. In Experiment 2, Russian words spelled usi...

The main goal of this research was to examine how readers of Russian assign stress to disyllabic words. In particular, we tested the claim that the process of stress assignment in Russian can only be accomplished lexically. Eleven potential non-lexical sources of evidence for stress in Russian were examined in regression and factorial studies. In Study 1, onset complexity, coda complexity, the ...

This article explores how Russia’s right-wing groups drew upon concepts of memory and identity commemoration to inform their ritual practices. Their creation of various memorials, celebrations and cults represented a synthesis between conservative values of Orthodoxy, autocracy and Russian nationality, and a populist nationalist appeal that came to define the ideology and practice of the Russia...

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...