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Automatic construction of lexical typological questionnaires
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Paperno D., Ryzhova D.
Questionnaires constitute a crucial tool in linguistic typology and language description. By nature, a Questionnaire is both an instrument and a result of typological work: its purpose is to help the study of a particular phenomenon cross-linguistically or in a particular language, but the creation of a Questionnaire is in its turn based on the analysis of cross-linguistic data.
We attempt to alleviate linguist’s work by constructing lexical Questionnaires automatically prior to any manual analysis. A convenient Questionnaire format for revealing fine-grained semantic distinctions includes pairings of words with diagnostic contexts that trigger different lexicalizations across languages. Our method to construct this type of a Questionnaire relies on distributional vector representations of words and phrases which serve as input to a clustering algorithm. As an output, our system produces a compact prototype Questionnaire for cross-linguistic exploration of contextual equivalents of lexical items, with groups of three homogeneous contexts illustrating each usage. We provide examples of automatically generated Questionnaires based on 100 frequent adjectives of Russian, including veselyj ‘funny’, ploxoj ‘bad’, dobryj ‘kind’, bystryj ‘quick’, ogromnyj ‘huge’, krasnyj ‘red’, byvšij ‘former’ etc. Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the Questionnaires confirms the viability of our method.
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Russkih A., Rossyaykin P., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 2 P. 7–31
This paper presents a typological questionnaire designed for the systematic and cross-linguistically comparable description of additive markers, such as English too or German auch, in any language of the world. The questionnaire comprises over 80 stimuli targeting the behavior of additives across 12 functions. It incorporates both morphosyntactic and semantic parameters of variation, identified through ...
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Anna Moskvina, Margarita Kirina, , in: 27th International Conference, IMS 2024, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 24–26, 2024, Selected Papers. Internet and Modern Society. Human-Computer Communication. CCIS, volume 2534Vol. 2534.: Springer, 2025. P. 113–129.
The paper presents an investigation of the emotional aspect of the Russian short story of the 20th century. Our study is two-fold: firstly, we delve into emotional representation at the lexical level, building upon previous work on utilizing vector models to quantify emotional content. In this study, we introduce an annotated corpus where words are ...
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Petrunina U., Filip H., , in: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology.: Dubrovnik: Croatian Language Technology Society, 2023.
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Mishkevich A., Shchebetenko S., Kalugin A. et al., Сибирский психологический журнал 2024 № 91 С. 60–80
The article presents taxonomy of personality traits based on Russian adjectives. As per
sonality structures derived from adjectives have been widespread worldwide, the identifica
tion of such a structure for the Russian language would open up possibility of applying global
taxonomies like the Big Five and HEXACO to the Russian-language context. Participants
were 812 Russian residents; after removing unreliable ...
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Where Is Happily Ever After? A Study of Emotions and Locations in Russian Short Stories of 1900–1930
Moskvina A., Kirina M., , in: Digital Geography: Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet and Modern Society (IMS 2023).: Springer, 2023. P. 123–135.
The paper tackles the problem of the automatic detection of emotions in literary texts using distributional semantics techniques. The experiment was carried out on the material of Russian short stories from the 1900-1930s. We investigated the emotional lexis distribution across different locations in narratives. At first, we calculated the semantic association score between each word ...
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Sherstinova T., Moskvina A., Kirina M. et al., В кн.: Труды международной конференции «Корпусная лингвистика — 2023».: СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета, 2024. С. 232–240.
In the experimental study, the results of three different approaches to the evaluation of the tonality of literary texts are compared: dictionary-based, machine learning, and distributional semantics. The material for analysis was a selection of 210 stories by Russian writers from the first three decades of the 20th century. The research showed that the correlation ...
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Moskvina A., Kirina M., В кн.: Труды международной конференции «Корпусная лингвистика — 2023».: СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета, 2024. С. 156–166.
The paper presents the results of experiments investigating the distribution of emotional vocabulary in Russian short stories of the beginning of the 20th century. The emotionality of words and texts is determined automatically using the methods of distributive semantics, which does not require the use of dictionaries or preliminary data annotation. The results include data ...
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Pimenova N., Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка 2023 Т. 82 № 1 С. 24–36
The article deals with parameters for the study of adjectival derivation from the point of view of semantic typology. The bases of semantic typology of word formation and classification of derived adjectives are considered. It is shown that the parameters of “Eurocentric” standard classifications are shifted towards formal-content samples (derivative formant ~ formant value). The Tungus-Manchu languages demonstrate ...
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И. В. Неткачев, К. В. Филатов, Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2020 Т. 16 № 1 С. 786–800
В статье описываются глаголы фрейма «падение» в каратинском языке. Этот фрейм обслуживают восемь глаголов, из которых глагол t’araɬa ‘упасть’ — доминантный и может быть употреблен в большинстве ситуаций падения. Остальные глаголы семантической зоны падения — узкоспециализированные, предназначенные для описания ситуаций падения с одним (реже несколькими) ярко выраженными признаками. Так, karaɬa ‘опрокинуться’ используется для описания ситуаций ...
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Reznikova Tat'jana, , in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online.: Brill, 2020.
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Ванеян С. С., Toldova S., Железнова В. А., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2020 Т. XVI № 1 С. 435–461
The work is devoted to the verbs of falling in Kazym dialect of Khanty language (Ob-Ugric < Finno-Ugric). This dialect is spoken in the district near the Kazym River, Khanty-Mansi district. The work suggests the detailed distribution of the core verbs pertaining to the semantic field of falling. The system of verbs of falling in ...
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Antonova M., М.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2021.
This book introduces a method for modelling cognitive foundation of the semantics of English adjectives. The study focuses on three adjectival categories, in particular, “Mental qualities of human beings”, “Moral qualities of human beings” and “Characteristics of human beings’ appearance”. The results of the study show that the human mind peculiarity to interpret the world via antinomies rules the interpretation of ...
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Ryzhova D., Урало-алтайские исследования 2022 № 2 (45) С. 123–140
The paper describes semantics of the Kazym Khanty verbs pitti ‘to fall; to get into somewhere’ and χɔjti ‘to touch; to hit the target’ under the framework of the frame-based approach to lexical typology, according to which a word acquires different meanings in different context types. The sets of physical meanings of the verbs in ...
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Apresyan V., Lopukhina A., Zarifyan M., Frontiers in Psychology 2021 Vol. 12 Article 742064
We studied mental representations of literal, metonymically different, and metaphorical senses in Russian adjectives. Previous studies suggested that in polysemous words, metonymic senses, being more sense-related, were stored together with literal senses, whereas more distant metaphorical senses had separate representations. We hypothesized that metonymy may be heterogeneous with respect to its mental storage. “Whole-part” metonymy ...
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Bychkova P., Rakhilina E. V., , in: Discourse phenomena in typological perspective.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. Ch. 3 P. 35–63.
This paper discusses the frame method developed by Moscow lexical typology group in application to pragmatic constructions, namely, discourse formulae (idiomatic answers like Fair enough or You bet!). The methods of data collection and analysis are illustrated with a case study of negative discourse formulae in four Slavic languages. The study shows how the field of negation is organized, and how answering strategies differ in ...
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Усачева М. С., Leontieva A., Вопросы языкознания 2021 № 6 С. 69–98
This paper is devoted to semantic structure and syntactic properties of predicates of pain in Beserman Udmurt. Beserman is a variety of Udmurt spoken in northwestern Udmurtia, which has undergone contact influence of Russian dialects and of Turkic languages. We analyze meanings and compatibility of units which denote pain, describe grammatical encoding of different participants ...
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Sherstyuk A., Reznikova T., Jezikoslovni Zapiski 2022 Vol. 28 No. 1 P. 55–67
This article presents some results of cross-linguistic research on verbs of pushing and pulling in nine Slavic languages. These data call into question the traditional notion of the semantic field as a clear-cut class of lexical units. It is shown that, due to semantic adjacency, fields may overlap, so that in different languages the same ...
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Vyrenkova A. S., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2020 Т. XVI Ч.1 С. 368–385
This paper investigates the use of the Russian verb padat’ ‘to fall’ and its quasi-synonyms. Padat’ is dominant in the system of Russian predicates of falling — and therefore should be suitable for describing any type of uncontrolled downward motion. However, in a number of contexts a diff erent means of expression is required. These ...
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Bakarov A., Gureenkova O., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2018 P. 16–21
This study considers the problem of automated detection of non-relevant posts on Web forums and discusses the approach of resolving this problem by approximation it with the task of detection of semantic relatedness between the given post and the opening post of the forum discussion thread. The approximated task could be resolved through learning the ...
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Bakarov A., PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS IN BULGARIA (CLIB '18) 2018 P. 153–161
Swivel (Submatrix-WIse Vector Embedding Learner) is a distributional semantic model based on counting point-wise mutual information values, capable of capturing word-context co-occurrences in the PMI matrix that were not noted in the training corpus. This model outperforms mainstream word embedding training algorithms such as Continuous Bag-of-Words, GloVe and Skip-Gram in word similarity and word analogy ...
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