Russian in Contrast:
A view from parallel corpora
Atle Grønn, University of Oslo
Oslo, September 17, 2009
Where Russian meets Norwegian –
languages at the interfaces
http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/run/index.html
Встреча русского с норвежским –
языки в пересечении
http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/run/russian/index.html
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The RuN project (2008-2010)
ƒ Funding from the Norwegian Centre for
International Cooperation
p
in Higher
g
Education ((SIU).
)
ƒ Contrastive linguistics
ƒ Translation studies
ƒ Development of new tools in L2
L2-teaching
teaching
ƒ The RuN corpus
p
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Plan
ƒ Parallel corpora and the RuN corpus
ƒ Some simple
p examples
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from
Russian in Contrast
ƒ Other applications
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Parallel corpora
ƒ Quantitative and representative data
ƒ Methodological
g
advantages
g in g
grammar,
lexicography and translation studies.
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Russian Parallel Corpora
ƒ Russian-Slovak
Russian Slovak Parallel Corpus
ƒ Russian-Finnish Parallel Corpus
p ((dissertation of
Mikhail Mikhajlov)
ƒ The Russian National Corpus (English
(English-Russian;
Russian;
German-Russian)
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Parallel corpora in Oslo
ƒ OMC – Oslo Multilingual Corpora
(Norwegian English
(Norwegian,
English, German
German, French …))
ƒ RuN
(Norwegian, Russian, English …)
ƒ Common interface: ”Glossa”, developed by the
Text Laboratoryy ((ILN, UiO).
)
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The RuN corpus
List of texts:
http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/run/corpus/
Size as of September 2009:
ƒ 1,2
, million words in Norwegian
g
ƒ 1,2 million words in Russian
ƒ 500 000 words in English
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Counterfactuals –
with data from RuN-OMC
Grønn & von Stechow (in progress):
Hadde ikke Anders vært i Lofoten
Lofoten, så hadde han nok sagt et
ord og gitt ham gode råd.
Had Anders not been in the Lofoten Islands
Islands, he would surely
have given his brother good advice.
Wäre Anders nicht auf den Lofoten gewesen
gewesen, dann hätte er
wohl ein Wort gesagt und ihm einen guten Rat gegeben.
Si Anders n'avait
n avait pas été aux Lofoten, il y aurait
probablement mis son mot et donné quelques bons conseils.
сл бы
б Андерс
дерс не
еб
был
л се
сейчас
ас на
а Лофо
Лофотенах,
е а ,о
он мог
о б
бы
Если
дать Нильсу дельный совет.
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Student work related
to the RuN-corpus
ƒ perfective prefixes (Aktionsarten)
ƒ relative tense
ƒ indefinite pronouns
p
ƒ discourse particles
ƒ lexical semantics
ƒ translation strategies etc
etc.
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Some applications at
Russian in Contrast
Filiouchkina Krave: converbs (gerunds) in
Russian/English/Norwegian
Klonova: impersonal sentences in Russian and Norwegian
Janygina: implicit information in literary texts
Other approaches based on electronic corpora: Kuznecova,
Ljashevskaja, Paducheva, Sokolova (comparing data from
monolingual
li
l corpora ffor diff
differentt llanguages))
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Idioms
Inspired by Berthemet, Kozerenko
han kanskje
j gj
gjorde sin beste venn en bjørnetjeneste
j
j
ved å g
gi
ham Dina
he might
g be doing
g his best friend an unintentional disservice
by giving Dina to him
il rendait peut-être un mauvais service à son meilleur ami en
lui donnant Dina
er seinem besten Freund vielleicht einen Bärendienst
erwies, er ihm Dina gab
выдавая Дину за своего лучшего друга, он оказывает
тому медвежью услугу.
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Lexical and cultural concepts
Inspired by Ivanishcheva
LU1R.s1415
аспирант
LU1TE s1502
LU1TE.s1502
postgraduate
LU1TN.s1528
doktorgradsstudent
g
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Puzzling translations
Inspired by Parrott
LU1R s3404
LU1R.s3404
— Ой,
Ой Маш,
Маш ты,
ты что ли?
LU1TN s3611 Oj,
LU1TN.s3611
Oj Masja,
Masja er det deg
deg, da?
LU1TE.s3586 Oy,
y, Mash,, is that yyou?
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Representativity
in lexicography
Inspired by Smirnova
однако =
however, but,
th
though
h (O
(Oxford
f d
Russian-English
di ti
dictionnary)
)
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однако – however:
h
25%
однако – but: 31%
однако – though: 16%
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Raw data: word classes
Inspired by Zorikhina Nilsson
ovenpå = 39 hits
поверх = 34 hits
ovenpå
p – поверх
р = 0 hits
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”ovenpå” cont.
ovenpå – .*верх.* = 37 hits
LNT2R 97
LNT2R.s97
Н
Наверху
приготовить?
?
LNT2TN.s92
Skal jeg gjøre i stand ovenpå?
LNT2TE.s88
Is the room to be got ready upstairs?
ovenpå
å in
i N
Norw. iis nott a preposition,
iti
b
butt an adverb.
d b
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Raw data:
conjunctions, Russian ”а”
Inspired by Jasinskaja, Post
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a – and (Eng.)
a – og (Norw.)
938 hits
2975 hits
a – but (Eng.)
a – men (Norw.)
531 hits
1615 hits
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Searching for zero elements
Inspired by Mažara
LU1R 1582
LU1R.s1582
— Ну,
Н как тебе
б мой
й грим, В
Валер?
?
LU1TE.s1677 Well,, what do yyou think of myy makeup,
p,
Valerii?
LU1TN s1700 Nå
LU1TN.s1700
Nå, hva synes du om sminken min,
min da
da,
Valerij?
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Subordinate tense:
relative clauses
Preview of von Stechow & Grønn
Charles
Ch
l Di
Dickens.
k
It was the
th very place
l
ffor a h
homeless
l
b
boy,
Oliver Twist
who must die in the streets unless some
one helped him.
him
(Russian
National Corpus)
Это было самое подходящее
д д щ место
для бездомного мальчика, которому
придется умереть на улице, если никто
ему не поможет.
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Спасибо за внимание!
E j th
Enjoy
the conference!
f
!
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