Sharing portions of grammars across languages greatly reduces the costs of nutltilingual grammar engineering. Related languages share a ntuch wider range of linguistic itff'ornuttio;t than typically assunwd in stamlard mttltilingttal gramtmtr atwhitectures. Taking grammatical relatedness seriously, we are particularly interested in designing lhtguistically motivated grammatical resottrces Jbr S...

The focus of this paper is on a detailed description of a newlydeveloped parallel corpus of Slavic languages. It consists of 11 Slavic translations of the well-known Russian socialist realist novel “Kak zakaljalas’ stal’/How the steel was tempered” (KZS), written by N.A. Ostrovskij in the years 1932-34. The KZS contains the Slovene, Croatian, Serbian (ekavian), Macedonian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian,...

In an ideal world, academia serves society; it provides quality education to future leaders and informs public policy—and does so by including a diverse array of scholars. However, research recent protest movements show that is subject race-based inequities hamper the recruitment retention scholars color, reducing scientific impact. This article critical systemic context for racism in before re...

In recent analyses, attention has been drawn to Participle-Auxiliary orders in Slavic. Such constructions have been argued to involve Long Head Movement of the participle: that is, head movement which does not obey the Head Movement Constraint, and which is taken to be an instance of a Last-Resort syntactic operation. The phenomenon, which appears in a number of Slavic languages, is seen in (b)...

The unprefixed imperfective verbs of motion with present tense in -i (such as Russian vodit’, vozit’, bežat’), most of which are considered indeterminate in the modern languages, developed over a lengthy period from Proto-Indo-European to the disintegration of Proto-Slavic. The final period of their development in Slavic shows striking innovation in the formal and semantic structures, including...

Slavic languages are characteristic by their relatively high degree of word order freedom. In the process of automatic generation from an underlying representation of the content, we have to ensure that a semantically and contextually appropriate word order is chosen. In this paper, we elucidate information structure as the main factor determining word order in Slavic languages, and we present ...

Turkism was one of the political movements emerging in last period Ottoman Empire. Under scope movement, initially belonging and realism were identifying factors. Subject matter comprises such concepts like balance, strategy interest. In subsequent period, racial origins became prevalent within framework movement. Racial origin construed as descending from Turkic blood. Figure transition betwee...

This paper describes the outcomes of the First Multilingual Named Entity Challenge in Slavic Languages. The Challenge targets recognizing mentions of named entities in web documents, their normalization/lemmatization, and cross-lingual matching. The Challenge was organized in the context of the 6th Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing Workshop, colocated with the EACL-2017 conference. Eleve...

For the linguistic expression of the concept of knowledge, the Slavic languages use verbs deriving from the Indo-European roots *ĝnō and *u̯ ei̯d. They differ in terms of the availability of both types of verbs in the contemporary standard languages and in terms of their semantic range. As will be shown in this paper, these differences are interesting not only from a language-specific lexico lo g...