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StimulStat: A lexical database for Russian.

Svetlana Alexeeva¹, Natalia Slioussar^2,3, Daria Chernova²

¹St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Galernya 58/60, 190000, Russia. mail@s-alexeeva.ru.

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Summary

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StimulStat is a new lexical database for the Russian language, offering over 1.7 million word forms and 52,000 lemmas. This resource provides crucial psycholinguistic data for researchers studying language processing.

Keywords:

Frequency Grammatical properties Lexical database Neighborhood Russian

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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Computational Linguistics
Lexicography

Background:

Lexical databases are essential tools for psycholinguistic research.
Existing resources for the Russian language may lack comprehensive psycholinguistic properties.
There is a need for a centralized, searchable database of Russian lemmas and word forms.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce StimulStat, a novel web-based lexical database for the Russian language.
To provide a comprehensive collection of Russian lemmas and word forms with extensive psycholinguistic characteristics.
To make this resource freely accessible to the research community.

Main Methods:

Compilation of a lexical database containing over 52,000 Russian lemmas and 1.7 million word forms.
Characterization of lemmas and forms using more than 70 psycholinguistically relevant properties.
Integration of properties from existing dictionaries and computation of new properties.
Development of a web application for searchable access to the database.

Main Results:

StimulStat database successfully created, featuring over 52,000 lemmas and 1.7 million word forms.
Database includes over 70 psycholinguistic properties, such as frequency, length, phonological and grammatical features, neighborhood characteristics, and ambiguity.
Properties were aggregated from various sources and newly computed, offering a unique, searchable collection.
The web application provides free and open access to the StimulStat database.

Conclusions:

StimulStat represents a significant advancement in lexical resources for Russian psycholinguistic research.
The database offers a rich, multi-property characterization of Russian words, facilitating diverse research.
The free web accessibility of StimulStat is expected to promote wider use and further research in Russian language processing.