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Russian scientists to create archive of ancient Slavic texts

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Russian scientists to create archive of ancient Slavic texts


18.03.2020

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Russian scientists, with the participation of the commission for work with universities and the scientific community under the Diocesan Council of Moscow, are working on creating an interactive database of ancient Slavic texts using artificial intelligence technologies. This step will help scientists in the study of the languages ​​and culture of the Slavic peoples, RIA Novosti reports.

The project involves specialists from leading Russian universities. It is reported that artificial intelligence will help create an Old Slavic language corpus based on handwritten texts, which, in turn, will become the key to understanding the vocabulary and grammar of modern Slavic languages. One of the experts participating in the project called the study “a bridge from the culture of the past to the technologies of the future”.

The project started by digitizing written monuments of the 11th – 17th centuries from collections of leading historical and church archives of Russia. Old Slavic texts are written in Old Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian.

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