Olena Siruk


2022

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Some Notes on p(e)re-Reduplication in Bulgarian and Ukrainian: A Corpus-based Study
Ivan Derzhanski | Olena Siruk
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2022)

We present a comparative study of p(e)re-reduplication in Bulgarian and Ukrainian, based on material from a parallel corpus of bilingual texts. We analyse all occurrences found in the corpus of close sequences and conjunctions of two cognate words, the second of which features the intensive and recursive prefix pre- (Bulgarian) or pere- (Ukrainian). We find that in Bulgarian this construction occurs more frequently with finite verb forms, and in Ukrainian with participles and nouns. There is also a correlation with the mode of action denoted by the prefix: in its intensive meaning it turns up more often in Bulgarian, in its recursive meaning in the two languages equally, and in Ukrainian there are more occasions where it cannot be identified as either intensive or recursive. Finally, in both languages instances of p(e)re-reduplication are most common, by a wide marge, in texts with Ukrainian originals.

2020

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A Bilingual Lexicosemantic Network of Bread Based on a Parallel Corpus
Ivan Derzhanski | Olena Siruk
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2020)

We present an experiment in using a corpus of Bulgarian and Ukrainian parallel texts for the automatised construction of a bilingual lexicosemantic network representing the semantic field of BREAD. We discuss the extraction of the relevant material from the corpus, the production of networks with varying parameters, some issues of the interpretation of these networks, and possible ways of making them more accurate and informative.
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