St. Petersburg State University
Faculty of Philology and Arts
International Conference
«CORPUS LINGUISTICS – 2008»
October 6–10, 2008, St. Petersburg
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
October 6, Monday
9-30…14-00 – Registration of participants
14-00…14-15 – OPENING CEREMONY
Greetings from Sergey I. Bogdanov, the Dean of the Faculty of Philology and Arts
Opening Speech by Alexander S. Gerd, the Head of the Organizing and Program Committees
14-15…15-45 – PLENARY MEETING
Savchuk S. (Moscow) The Corpus of the Early XXth Century Russian Texts: from Experience in Creating a
Corpus
Boguslavsky I., Iomdin L., Valeev D., Sizov V. (Moscow) ETAP Parser and its Evaluation Using a Deeply
Annotated Corpus of Russian Texts
Paducheva E. (Moscow) Direct and Indirect Diathesis of a Mental Verb: Corpus-Based Approach
15-45…16-00 – Coffee-break
16-00…17-30 – PLENARY MEETING
Gindin S., Ivanova E., Krasnikova A. (Moscow) Integral Systems of Philological Maintenance: Goals,
Principal Components, Constructive Problems and Cultural Value
Rychkova L. (Belarus, Grodno) Sociocultural and Ecolinguistic Aspects of Corpora
Blanco X. (Spain, Barcelona) Using NooJ for Multipurpose Analysis of Romance Languages Corpora
October 7, Tuesday
10-00…11-15 – PARALLEL CORPORA
Andreeva Е. (StP) «Only» and «Alone» – a Corpus-Based Sense Differentiation
Bobkova T., Gridneva L., Lebedev K., Perebeynoss V. (Ukraine, Kiev) Principles of Part of Speech Tagging
in the English-Ukraine Parallel Corpus of NATO Documents
Krizhanovsky A. (StP) Experiments on Corpus Index Generated from Wikipedia
11-10…11-30 – Coffee-break
11-30…12-45 – SEMANTICS IN CORPORA
Kustova G., Toldova S. (Moscow) The Russian National Corpus: Semantic Filters for the Verb Sense
Disambiguation
Lapshinova-Koltunski E. (Stuttgart, Germany) Data Extraction from Corpora as a Tool to Classify Predicates
by their Subcategorization Properties
Kustova G. (Moscow) The Computer Dictionary of Combinability of Degree Words Based on the Russian
National Corpus
12-45…13-00 – Coffee-break
13-00…14-15 – SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY IN CORPORA
Boguslavsky I., Iomdin L., Mityushin L., Sizov V. (Moscow) Length of Dependency Links in the Annotated
Corpus of Russian
Petkevič V. (Czech Republic, Prague) Agreement in Czech as Manifested in the Czech National Corpus
Šimkova M. (Slovak Republic, Bratislava) Part of Speech Tagging in the Slovak National Corpus and its
Application in Explanatory Dictionary Creation
14-15…15-00 – Lunch-break
15-00…16-15 – CORPORA IN THE STUDY OF SPEECH
Kuehnast M. (Germany, Berlin) Acquisition of Null Anaphora in Bulgarian – a Coprus-Based Study
Saveljeva-Trofimova O., Kibrik A. (Moscow) Postpositive Subclausal Units in Spoken Language (Based on the
«Dream Stories» Corpora)
Korotaev N., Kibrik A. (Moscow) «Sentence» in Oral Narrative: A Corpus-Based Study
16-15…16-30 – Coffee-break
16-30…18-10 – SPECIAL ASPECTS OF CORPORA DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION
Belyaeva L. (StP) Parallel Corpus as a Database for Applied Lexicography
Gerd A., Azarova I., Dmitriev A., Nikolaev I., Sokolova A. (StP) Toponymic and Cartographic Data in the
Project «Complex Toponymic Mapping of Ingermanland Historic and Cultural Zone (South-West of Leningrad
Oblast)»
Nikolaev I. (StP) Ingermanland Folk Songs Corpora as Data Source for Izhorian Language Grammatical
Description
Badmayeva L., Badagarov Zh., Tsydypov B. (Ulan-Ude) General Problems of the Buryat Corpus Organization
October 8, Wednesday
9-30…11-10 – SPECIAL ASPECTS OF CORPORA DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION
Gerd A. (StP) The Russian National Corpus – Card Index – Academy Dictionary
Rogov A., Gurin G., Kotov A. (Petrozavodsk) Some Peculiarities of the Grammatically Annotated Corpus of
the Late XIX century Russian Journalistic Texts
Kamshilova O., Kapotova N., Rasumova V. (StP) Sentence Length and Structure Analysis in a Special Corpus
Rodionova E., Khozyainov S., Mitrofanova O. (StP) Text Corpora in Attribution of Literary Works
11-10…11-30 – Coffee-break
11-30…12-45 – SEMANTICS IN CORPORA
Azarova I., Bichineva S., Vakhitova D. (StP) Automatic WSD for Frequent Nouns (in terms of RussNet
Structural Units)
Mitrofanova O., Lashevskaya O., Panicheva P. (StP, Moscow) Experiments on Statistical WSD for Russian
Nouns in a Corpus
Lezin G. (StP) The Ontological Representation of the Meaning of the Sentence in RDF/OWL
12-45…13-00 – Coffee-break
13-00…14-15 – SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY IN CORPORA
Iagounova E. (StP) Analyzing Context Predictability of Textual Units by Means of Corpora
Grishina E., Savchuk S. (Moscow) The Russian National Corpus as a Tool for Studying Grammar Variation
Kopotev M. (Finland, Helsinki) Creating a Frequency Grammar of Russian
14-15…15-00 – Lunch-break
15-00…16-15 – MACHINE TRANSLATION AND PARALLEL CORPORA
Garabík R. (Slovak Republic, Bratislava) A Simple Russian-Slovak Machine Translation System
Vavřín M., Rosen A. (Czech Republic, Prague) INTERCORP: a Multilingual Parallel Corpus
Klyueva N., Bojar O. (Czech Republic, Prague) UMC 0.1: Czech-Russian-English Multilingual Corpus
16-15…16-30 – Coffee-break
16-30…18-10 – CORPORA IN THE STUDY OF SPEECH
Waclawičová M., Křen M. (Czech Republic, Prague) ORAL2008: New Balanced Corpus of Spoken Czech
Shestopalova V., Petrova T., Bolgov M. (Vladivostok) The Regional Variety of Spoken Russian as a Subject
for Corpus Linguistics
Vydrin V. (StP) Towards an Electronic Corpus of Bamana: Tonal Marks
Smirnov A., Smirnova O. (Voronezh) Foreign Language Phonotactics Software
October 9, Thursday
9-30…11-10 – DIACHRONIC CORPORA
Azarova I., Alexeeva E., Alexeev V. (StP) Automatic Annotation of the Hagiographic Corpus SCAT
Ufland E., Alexeeva E. (StP) Reducing Spelling Variation in Service Components of the Hagiographic Corpus
SCAT
Rogozina E. (StP) XML-encoding of the Hagiographic Text Content Structure for SCAT Corpus
Nekipelova I. (Izhevsk) The Analysis of Types of Lexical Meanings as a Step in Reconstruction of Lexical
Semantics of the Old Russian Language (based on Slavonic Triodion)
11-10…11-30 – Coffee-break
11-30…12-45 – SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY IN CORPORA
Grebenkov A. (StP) Internet Resource www.wordform.ru as a Tool of Morphological Tagging of Russian
Texts
Boyarsky K., Kanevsky E. (StP) Software Development for Semi-Automatic Morphological Tagging
Bobichev V. (Moldova, Chisinau) Automatic Morphological Disambiguation for Corpus Annotation
12-45…14-00 – Lunch-break
14-00…14-50 – SPECIAL ASPECTS OF CORPORA DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION
Bugakov O. (Ukraine, Kiev) Using UNLC in Linguistic Research
Sidorova E. (Novosibirsk) An Approach to Construction of Subject Domain Dictionaries via Corpora
14-50…15-00 – Coffee-break
15-00…15-50 – SPECIAL ASPECTS OF CORPORA DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION
Konstantinova N. (StP) On the Choice of Means for Ontology Representation (A Case Study of «Financial
Management» Domain)
Vinogradova N., Mitrofanova O. (StP) Formal Ontology as a Tool for Data Systematization in the Corpus of
Russian Texts on Corpus Linguistics
15-50…16-00 – Coffee-break
16-00 – CLOSING CEREMONY
Closing Speech by Alexander S. Gerd, the Head of the Organizing and Program Committees
ROUND TABLE
17-00 – Buffet
TIME LIMIT:
plenary talks – 30 minutes (with discussion),
workshop talks – 25 minutes (with discussion).
A computer and a projector will be at the disposal of participants.
CONFERENCE LOCATION:
October 6 –
Faculty of Philology and Arts, Universitetskaya embankment, 11;
registration – room 193, plenary meeting – Cinema Hall.
October 7, 8, 9 –
Institute of Linguistic Studies, Tuchkov pereulok, 9;
workshops – Conference Hall.