Russian 20th Century Literature Digital Library for Language Teaching

Russian 20th Century Literature Digital Library for
Language Teaching

Serge
Yablonsky

St. Petersburg Transport University
root@russicon.spb.su

1999

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

ACH/ALLC 1999

editor

encoder

Sara
A.
Schmidt

Digital libraries are important in language learning, in teaching of linguistics
and in computer-assisted language learning (McEnery and Wilson 1993). Today in
the stage of preparation is the RUSSIAN XX CENTURY LITERATURE digital library --
the Russian text corpus with works of more than 200 Russian 20th Century
writers. The texts are taken from printed resources, CD-resources and Internet.
The chief distinction of the digital library is its strong connection with the
set of Russian electronic dictionaries and language processing tools,
particularly dependent on the language processor Russicon (Belyaev, B.M.,
Surcis, A.S., Yablonsky, S.A., 1993; Yablonsky, S.A., 1990; Yablonsky, S.A.,
1994; Yablonsky, S.A., 1997, a, 1998,1999). Every word of the linguistically
encoded corpus simultaneously is the entry word of mentioned dictionaries.
By connecting the Language Processor Russicon and dictionaries to Russian digital
library one may view language learning aids as performing of (Yablonsky S.A.,
1994; Yablonsky S.A., 1997, a, b, 1998):
reading of Russian text accessible via digital library;
getting on-line help for every word in the texts that provides the
following facilities: a morphological parse, lemma, the entry to the
word in the set of dictionaries (in a bilingual X/Russian dictionary, in
explanatory monolingual Russian one etc.);
automatic generation and verification of different variants of
inflection paradigms for the word (containing only one correct variant)
and verification of the right answer;
automatic generation and verification of prefix(s), stem(s),
suffix(s), ending, lemma for given word form after learner's
input;
automatic generation of test texts with lacunas and verification of
them after learner's input etc.

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