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. References A. McEnery A. Wilson The role of corpora in computer-assisted language learning Computer Assisted Language Learning 6 3 233-48 1993 B. M. Belyaev A. S. Surcis S. A. Yablonsky Russian Language Processor RUSSICON: Design and Applications. Proceedings of the East- West Artificial Intelligence Conference (EWAIC-93), Moscow 1993 175-180 S. A. Yablonsky Russian Language Processor RUSSICON Actual problems of computer linguistics, Tartu, Estonia 1990 S. A. Yablonsky Application of the Russian Language Processor Russicon in Language Learning Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA '94 World conference on educational multimedia and hypermedia, Vancover 1994 778 S. A. Yablonsky New Capabilities for Russian and Ukrainian Language Learning Based on the Language Processor Russicon Sake Jager John Nerbonne Arthur van Essen Language Teaching and Language Technology Lisse Swets and Zeitlinger Forthcoming S. A. Yablonsky Russicon Slavonic Language Resources and Software A. Rubio N. Gallardo R. Castro A. Tejada Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation, Granada, Spain 1998a 141-147 S. A. Yablonsky Development of Russian Language Learning System on the WWW Abstracts of the International conference The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age, September 25-28, Bergen, Norway 1998b 123-127 S. A. Yablonsky Russian Written Language Corpora Development Proceedings of the International Seminar Dialog99, May 30-June 8, Tarussa, Russia 1999