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29.03.2024

In March, the Syntactic сorpus was significantly upgraded. New information and search fields appeared within SynTagRus. Starting from Word 2, one may specify coreference and temporal relation. In the Additional Features field one can now search for elided words, i.e. words that are omitted in a sentence but are present in its syntactic structure.

Searching by microsyntactic annotation allows finding stable expressions of different types. For example, by selecting the constructions vsë ravno 1 (~'all the same'), vsë ravno 2 and vsë ravno 3, the user can see the specific semantic features of this polysemous idiom ('in any way', 'indifferently' and 'equivalently', respectively) and the specific features of its usage (for example, vsë ravno 2 and 3 act as predicate, while vsë ravno 1 does not).

Sorting the search results by text date, author's date of birth, annotation date and random sorting is now available. By default, the results are sorted by the annotation date of the texts.

Hints appeared in the menus of syntactic relations, lexical functions and morphological features. Clicking on the (?) button in the neighboring window will open the corresponding description in the User's Guide.

29.03.2024

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 ZhukovskyBaratynsky, or Lermontov mentioned duša 'soul' much more often than authors of prose (see RadishchevGogol, or Turgenev).

05.03.2024

In February, we significantly improved the National media corpus.

It was updated with new texts counting 49,6 million tokens. These are printed media from the 1990s ("Nezavisimaya Gazeta", including weekly supplements, "Moskovsky Komsomolets", and "St. Petersburg Vedomosti").

In all the texts of the corpus, grammatical homonymy has been automatically resolved and annotation of syntactic relations (starting from the second token upon clicking "add condition") has been completed. Thus all the latest functions that are already available in the Main and Regional media corpora, such as searching by syntactic relations and properties, collocation search, frequency dictionary, frequency of query results, are also searchable within the National media corpus, the largest of the three.

The RNC Media corpus is now the world's largest Russian online corpus with the ability to search by syntactic relations!

In the form of the subcorpus, it is now possible to select texts by topic and type. For annotation of these fields RuRoBERTa model is used, further trained on the Regional Corpus data. Fields in the form of subcorpus and text information with values generated by NeuroRNC, are marked with a special icon. Errors are possible with automatic annotation. There is a "Report an error" button in the text information pop-up window. Please inform us of any inaccuracies or errors in the definition of topics and types.

05.03.2024

The Syntactic Corpus now offers the possibility to select a subcorpus by basic parameters, such as author, text title, date of creation and author's year of birth, as well as by genres and text types and by markup date.

Follow our news on the website and social networks, in March we will continue to improve the Syntactic Corpus!