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Thematic Diversity of Everyday Russian Discourse: A Case Study Based on the ORD Corpus

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The paper is devoted to the study of thematic diversity of Russian oral discourse. It examines and analyzes the real-life episodes taken from the corpus of everyday spoken communication “One Day of Speech”. In the course of the study the main hyper-themes of Russian everyday communication have been identified. Each hyper-theme consists of several micro-themes. Based on these empiric data, the frequency of occurrence of various hyper-themes in everyday communication was obtained. For example, it was found that the most frequent themes of the empirical sample turned out to be “work”, “past and future”, “health”, and “household issues”. Statistical data on the duration of conversations on each particular theme have been obtained as well. The results of the study can be used in further studies of Russian oral discourse and for solving a number of practical tasks related with spontaneous conversation understanding, spoken speech topic modelling, as well as creating chatbots for everyday casual conversations.

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The study was financially supported by the grant from St. Petersburg State University (project No. 75254082 “Modeling the communicative behavior of Russian metropolis residents in the social, speech and pragmatic aspects using artificial intelligence methods”).

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    Eleonora Akinshina & Tatiana Sherstinova

  2. St. Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya emb., 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Tatiana Sherstinova

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Akinshina, E., Sherstinova, T. (2022). Thematic Diversity of Everyday Russian Discourse: A Case Study Based on the ORD Corpus. In: Prasanna, S.R.M., Karpov, A., Samudravijaya, K., Agrawal, S.S. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13721. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20980-2_1

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