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...

This paper presents the results of a research ordered by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and conducted in 2005-2006 by a team of Far Eastern National University (FENU) specialists. The paper is focusing on one particular topic of that research, ICT-based content of national and regional (Russian Far Eastern) higher education, its value and availability for national and internation...

translation is an effort toword a global creation of equalizing knowledge and steps into communication amongst nations, thereby creating a cultural relationship. translation reflects a cuttural interdependency amongst nations, iran and russia being amongst them. in this paper, the author tries to show the role of translation in establishing relation between iran and russia by mentioning example...

The behaviour of /v/ which, in languages as diverse as Hebrew, Hungarian and Russian, patterns with both sonorants and obstruents, is a puzzle for phonological theory (Jakobson, 1978; Barkai and Horvath, 1978; Hayes, 1984; Kiparsky, 1985; Padgett, 2002; Kiss and Bárkányi, 2006). In this paper I situate such cases in the broader typology of /v/’s patterning and distribution. A database of over 5...

Industrial policy is the most important part of state global economy policy. One of its primary goals is to create advantageous economic-organizing conditions providing economy with stabilization and industrial production development. Long-term and purposeful industry policy research is particularly important for the Russian Federation, where industry always played a significant part in formati...

influence this has on final height is not included in this chapter but found elsewhere under the heading of indices of maturity. In general it is well written, although it could be more concise. A helpful reference list is provided. After reading this text, I can only agree with the author's quotation of Saint Augustine "man looks about the universe in awe at its wonders and forgets that he him...

“The study has been supported by EU (Marie Curie FP7 project #269140), Academy of Finland (grant #288151 and #265015), EPSRC (grant EP/M029042/1), and Russian Science Foundation (grant no. 14-22-00136). P.G.K. thanks Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Grant No. 14.Z50.31.0009). Authors are grateful to Amin Abdolvand for valuable comments on the manuscript. The data for...

Mr. V.I. Zinchenko (Deputy Governor for Research, Innovation Policy and Education, Tomsk Region) greeted the workshop participants and noted that the workshop was taking place concurrently with a Siberian Innovation Forum that addressed how Siberian regions could achieve a greater links between their science establishments and local industry. He emphasized the need to encourage the greater part...