Proceedings of the 45th International Philological Conference (IPC 2016)

Session: Applied and Computational Linguistics

10 articles
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Towards an Online Representation of a Commented Author's Dictionary (as exemplified in M.ÿLomonosov's Rhetoric Terms Dictionary)

Andrei Filippov, Alexei Dobrov
Creating an online representation for authors' dictionaries with a scientific commentary implies facing difficulties of a specific kind. One of such resources is ®M.ÿLomonosov's Rhetoric Dictionary¯ (work in progress at the Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences). One of the most...
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Extracting Term Candidates for Multilingual (English-French-Russian) Glossary of Terms

Svetlana Pivovarova, Victor Zakharov
Our research is aimed at developing a procedure for extracting term candidates for a multilingual glossary of terms. The procedure is based on the extract-then-align algorithm. The performance of the algorithm is evaluated on the parallel English-French-Russian corpus.
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Applying the Curry-Howard isomorphism to the description of the natural language semantics

Artem Andreev
The article deals with the possibiltiy to adapt the Curry-Howard isomorphism to describe natural language semantics. An approach to treating linguistic ambiguity is proposed based on specifying invariants for proposition classes. A variant of constructive higher-order logic powerful enough to cover descriptions...
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Normalization of Old Russian Hagiographic Texts in SCAT

Irina Azarova, Elena Alekseeva, Konstantin Sipunin
Department of Mathematical Linguistisc of SPSU maintains the corpus of hagiographic texts (SCAT), comprising digital versions of Church Slavonic handwritten lives of saints from 16-18th centuries. The paper deals with lemmatization and spelling normalization in the index to the texts.
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On the measures of lexical similarity between frequency dictionaries

Alexander Grebennikov
Two measures of lexical similarity between frequency dictionaries are analyzed. The examples are drawn from frequency dictionaries of short stories by Russian writers. Their potential in stylometric researches is shown.
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On the Differences between Traditional and Web-Corpora based on the Analysis of High-Frequency Nouns

Maria Khokhlova
The paper gives a survey of corpora and analyzes a number of Russian nouns across the following corpora: ruTenTen (18.3 bln tokens) and Araneum Russicum Maximum (13.7 bln tokens). The research focuses on the discussion on these corpora, their comparison and the study of frequency properties for the high-frequency...
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Text and Corpus in the Context of the Interdisciplinary Theory of Communities (Coenoses)

Grigoriy Martynenko
The article deals with formation and development of an interdisciplinary branch which is called the general theory of coenoses. Special attention is paid to the formation of its branching - the theory of linguistic coenoses. The paper focuses on logical and methodological issues related with such notions...
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Variation Units in the Greek and Church Slavonic New Testament compared

Dina Mironova
The aim of this paper is to compare variation units in Mt. 14.14 - 14.34 of the Greek and Old Church Slavonic New Testament and to see which variation units of the Greek text find parallels in the Church Slavonic text and which of them are relevant for the text classification.
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Non-standard geographical terms in Ingermanland toponymic database

Ilya Nikolaev
Non-standard geographical terms in the database of toponymy of Ingermanland (Leningrad region) are analyzed in the article. We consider some peculiarities of these terms use in the database in the process of compilation of a toponymic vocabulary of Ingermanland.
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Sentiment analysis of reviews based on automatically developed lexicon

Ekaterina Protopopova, Grigoriy Bookia, Olga Mitrofanova
The talk deals with experiment on automatic processing of sentiment words and constructions. Peculiarity of our approach is determined by the similarity measure developed by the authors and applied to ranging of sentiment units. Our research is based on the Russian corpora of camera reviews from Yandex.Market...