RNC News

The Russian Classics corpus has implemented automatic annotation using neural network mechanisms. It now offers the same search and statistical tools as the Main, Media and other "advanced" corpora: frequency, n-grams, statistics, sketches in the Word at a glance function, search by syntactic relations, comparison of subcorpora by frequency dictionaries, etc. The Russian Classics is the only one of the RNC corpora where both verse and written prose are represented, and it is now possible to select poetic or prosaic texts separately. With all this we can compare what the Russian classics wrote about. For example, we can problematize alleged "human-centeredness" of Russian classical literature (see picture), and also notice that poets (see Zhukovsky, Baratynsky, or Lermontov mentioned duša 'soul' much more often than authors of prose (see Radishchev, Gogol, or Turgenev).