RNC News

The Birchbark letter corpus is updated with the texts of archaeological findings from the year 2021, published in 2022. These are the new documents from Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa, as well as the very first birchbark letter discovered in Pereyaslavl Ryazansky (modern-day Ryazan). 

A new corpus "From 2 to 15" featuring 75 original and translated texts in prose, read by modern children and teenagers, is inaugurated within the RNC. The main distinguishing feature of the new corpus is the automatic annotation of text fragments according to the age of readers that should be able to understand these fragments. The model is being tested, so mistakes can still appear in this annotation.

The Educational corpus interface has been substantially updated, the corpus is now available with the Get overview feature, and the description of the corpus has been updated.

A section "Corpus-based exercises" has been developed, which presents exercises based on the Educational Corpus and other corpora within the RNC. The exercises belong to different sections of the school Russian course and are designed for independent work in the classroom and at home, as well as for testing. We plan to develop and update the section with new exercises. The corpus users can also participate in the process. We invite teachers and professors to use the corpus to compose their own unique assignments and exercises. Feel free to send us some of your best ideas on info@ruscorpora.ru. We will publish them in the exercises section.