This essay is essentially divided into three parts. The first part is going to focus on early Soviet attitudes towards the Russian language itself, followed by a discussion of the early Soviet policies regarding non-Russian languages in the second part. The gradual shift away from the liberal language policies of the 1920s towards the new policies emerging in the late 1930s, overtly imposing Ru...

There is currently a paucity of publicly available NLP tools to support analysis of Russian-language text. This especially concerns higher-level applications, such as Information Extraction. We present work on tools for information extraction from text in Russian in the domain of on-line news. On the lower level we employ the AOT toolkit for natural language processing, which provides modules f...

This is the first attempt of empirical investigation of language mediated concept activation (LMCA) in bilingual memory as a cognitive mechanism facilitating divergent thinking. Russian-English bilingual and Russian monolingual college students were tested on a battery of tests including among others Abbreviated Torrance Tests for Adults assessing divergent thinking traits and translingual prim...

The paper describes the writing of Sketch Grammar for the Russian language as a part of the Sketch Engine system. The Sketch Engine representing itself a corpus tool which takes as input a corpus of any language and corresponding grammar patterns. The system gives information about a word’s collocability on concrete dependency models, and generates lists of the most frequent phrases for a given...

The paper deals with the features of teaching of profession-related texts reading in a foreign language to bilingual students in agricultural higher education institution. Article’s purpose was to analyze the technology of intercultural competence formation by means of profession-related texts reading. The method of intercultural competence formation included using the profession-related texts ...

The domain-specific track evaluates retrieval models for structured scientific bibliographic collections in English, German and Russian. Documents contain textual elements (title, abstracts) as well as subject keywords from controlled vocabularies, which can be used in query expansion and bilingual translation. Mappings between the different controlled vocabularies are provided. This year, new ...

In this article, considering impersonal sentences with the subject in the accusative case, which conveys the physical state of a living being, an attempt is made to compare them with the Persian correlates. This type of impersonal sentences can cause different problems for the Persian-speaking students due to their grammatical specificity (e.g. the uses of the subject in the accusative, rather ...

We describe a study that evaluates an approach to Word Sense Discrimination on three languages with different linguistic structures, English, Hebrew, and Russian. The goal of the study is to determine whether there are significant performance differences for the languages and to identify language-specific problems. The algorithm is tested on semantically ambiguous words using data from Wikipedi...

The starting point of most experimental and clinical examinations bilingual language development is the choice measure participants’ proficiency, which affects interpretation findings has pedagogical implications. Recent work on heritage L2 acquisition Russian used varying proficiency assessment tools, including elicited production, vocabulary recognition, in-house measures. Using such differen...