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The Old East Slavic corpus features fourteen new texts with a total size of 120,000 tokens, including such famous works of Old East Slavic literature as "Sermon on Law and Grace", "Daniel Zatochnik's Prayer",  "Kyivan Cave Patericon", the Slavic translation of "The Life of Basil the Younger". The corpus now includes different textual versions of different texts such as "Tale of Bygone Years", "Life of Theodosius", or the cycle on Boris and Gleb. More than 1,000 Old East Slavic lexemes have been added to the corpus, including the ancestors of such Russian words as выискивать, известие, избранник, пчелка, невежественный, стремглав, умышлять.

We continue to update the «Word at a Glance» feature. Now you can see the "Similar Words" cloud and Word frequency in the Middle Russian corpus and the "Similar Words" cloud in the Birchbark letter corpus.

Beta testing of the «Similar words» cloud within the «Word at a Glance» option continues. Thanks to your feedback we were able to improve the vector model that looks for similar words. We are waiting for new feedback on the «Similar words» clouds in the Main and Regional corpora and for your reaction on the «Similar words» cloud in the Middle Russian corpus. You can leave feedback by clicking the «Rate» button next to the feature. 

The five examples in the «Word at a Glance» feature are now selected at random, which means that with each new viewing of the Word at a Glance feature there is a chance to see something new.