Informatics and Applications
2014, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp 98-110
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR CORPUS STUDIES:
UNDERPINNINGS FOR CROSS-LINGUISTIC DATABASE CREATION
- N. V. Buntman
- Anna A. Zaliznyak
- I. M. Zatsman
- M. G. Kruzhkov
- E. Yu. Loshchilova
- D. V. Sitchinava
Abstract
Information technology for creation of cross-linguistic databases ofRussian texts with French translations
(also known as parallel texts) is considered. The underlying principles of the developed database provide a unique
combination of three types of bilingual search: lexical, grammatical, and lexico-grammatical. A distinctive feature
of the considered technology is simultaneous creation of Russian-French parallel subcorpus within the National
Russian Corpus and of the cross-linguistic database of Russian verbal lexico-grammatical forms and their French
functional equivalents. The subcorpus and the database have different levels of alignment: the former is aligned
at the level of sentences, and the later at the level of constructions. The academic relevance of the developed
database is due to its support of bilingual contrastive grammar development, as well as to its role in creation of
Russian grammar based on the modern empirical base and information technologies of corpus linguistics. The
main practical application of the database consists in improvement of quality of machine translation.
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[+] About this article
Title
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR CORPUS STUDIES:
UNDERPINNINGS FOR CROSS-LINGUISTIC DATABASE CREATION
Journal
Informatics and Applications
2014, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp 98-110
Cover Date
2014-03-31
DOI
10.14357/19922264140210
Print ISSN
1992-2264
Publisher
Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Key words
parallel corpus; information technology; cross-linguistic databases; bilingual lexical grammar search;
corpus linguistics; contrastive grammar
Authors
N. V. Buntman  , Anna A. Zaliznyak  ,  , I.M. Zatsman , M.G. Kruzhkov , E. Yu. Loshchilova ,
and D.V. Sitchinava 
Author Affiliations
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 31-a Lomonosov
Str., Moscow 119192, Russian Federation
Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1-1 Bolshyi Kislovskiy pereulok, Moscow 125009, Russian
Federation
Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 44-2 Vavilov Str., Moscow 119333, Russian
Federation
Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences, 18/2 Volkhonka Str.,Moscow 119019, Russian
Federation
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