Literature, Language and Computing

This book brings together selected revised papers representing a multidisciplinary approach to language and literature. The collection presents studies performed using the methods of computational linguistics in accordance with the traditions of Russian linguistic and literary studies, primarily in line with the Leningrad (Petersburg) philological school. The book comprises the papers allocated into 2 sections discussing the study of corpora in language, translation, and literary studies and the use of computing in language teaching and translation and in emotional text processing. A unique feature of the presented collection is that the papers, compiled in one volume, allow readers to get an understanding of a wide range of research conducted in Saint Petersburg State University and other Russian leading scientific institutions. Both the classical tradition of Saint Petersburg philology and the results obtained with the help of new computer technologies as a sample of the symbiosis of technologies and traditions, which bring research to a qualitatively new level, arouse interest.

Polina Eismont is Associate Professor at Ludmila Verbitskaya Department of General Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University. Her research interests include language acquisition and psycholinguistics, text linguistics, cognitive linguistics, event structure, music semantics, and syntax of nulls. She obtained her Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State University in 2008. She is Author of more than 40 papers in domestic and international journals and volumes and Co-editor of two CCIS volumes “Language, Music, and Computing” (Springer Verlag, 2015, 2019) and a book “Language, Music and Gesture: Informational Crossroads (LMGIC 2021)” (Springer Singapore, 2021).

Maria Khokhlova is Associate Professor at Department of Mathematical Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University. Her research lies at the intersection of natural language processing, corpus linguistics, and machine learning and was supported by grants and scholarships awarded by Russian and international foundations (RSF, DAAD, Visegrad Fund, Erasmus). She holds a Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State University (2011) and was awarded the St. Petersburg Government Prize for science and teaching (2020, 2022). She is Author of more than 100 articles in domestic and international refereed journals and volumes.

Mikhail Koryshev is Associate Professor at Department of Comparative Studies of Languages and Cultures and Dean of the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University. His research interests focus on German language and culture, literary studies, as well as on Catholic hymnography and liturgiology. He obtained a Ph.D. in Philology from St. Petersburg State University in 2005. He was Visiting Lecturer in Germany, and his research was supported by Erasmus and DAAD-Stiftung. He is Author of more than 60 papers in Russian and international peer-reviewed journals and book series.

Elena Riekhakaynen is Associate Professor and Head of Ludmila Verbitskaya Department of General Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University. She obtained her Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State University in 2011. Her research interests include Phonetics and Psycholinguistics, especially Spoken Word Recognition and Multimodal Text Processing. She is one of the developers of the Russian Speech Corpus and the author of three books and more than 60 papers in linguistics and interdisciplinary studies. For her research, she has been awarded prizes from St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg City Administration, Russian Educational Foundations, and the Program Committees of several international conferences.