Semantic Analysis Method Research Articles

Variation of translation reception of Q. Tarantino’s film discourse

Within the framework of the article, the phenomenon of variability of translation reception of Q. Tarantino’s film discourse is considered. The authors conduct a comparative analysis of translation solutions used by the Russian-speaking translators as part of their work on Q. Tarantino’s films when transmitting significant elements of the author’s idiostyle. The focus is on the analysis of variability and evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of the Russian-language translations of the film discourse of this director, which together make up the translation reception of his film works. The research methods include the continuous selection method, the method of contextual analysis, the method of functional semantic analysis, descriptive method, the method of contextual analysis, the method of interpretation of the film text, as well as methods of quantitative calculation. The original film texts of Q. Tarantino’s English-language films “Pulp Fiction”, “Inglourious Basterds”, “The Hateful Eight” and “Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood” and their translations into the Russian language have served as the material for the study. The authors analyze the film dialogues and films by Q. Tarantino as the main means of nonverbal and verbal representation of his idiostyle. It is argued that the films by Q. Tarantino are a significant example for the study of some aspects of translation reception into the Russian language due to the presence of a large layer of intertextual component in these works. It is emphasized that the interpretation of a literary text involves projecting the translator’s worldview onto the conceptual sphere of the translated work, as a result of which the latter becomes a co-author of the script. After analyzing the empirical material, the authors conclude that, regardless of the time of the release of the film, translators most often resort to such translation methods, as direct translation, modulation and addition, broadcasting numerous lexical, stylistic and pragmatic-semantic features of Q. Tarantino’s film discourse. Thanks to the development of information and telecommunication technologies and as translators gain more access to information, there are opportunities for improving the quality of translations due to the expansion of background knowledge in the field of pop-cultural and historical realia of the original linguaculture, actualized in the original film discourse.

Metaphorical models «Sleep» and «Conscience» in the poetic work «To Sleep» by J. Keats

The article discusses the results of the research of conceptual metaphorical models representing a fragment of the author’s worldview. The fact that conceptual metaphorical models are an integral component of human consciousness and are a tool of cognition, categorization and conceptualization of knowledge about the surrounding reality, substantiates the importance of the performed research of conceptual metaphorical models in a poetic work, since they accumulate the intellectual and emotional experience of the author. Poetic works are sources of author’s metaphors, which act as a means of forming unique, vivid images expressing the author’s language and poetic worldview. In the process of analyzing the poem «To Sleep» by J. Keats the combination of descriptive and conceptual methods is applied within the identified conceptual metaphorical model «sleep» to determine the semantic parameters of the concept «sleep». The metaphorical model «conscience» was differentiated and its features were described; the semantic potential of the concepts «sleep» and «conscience» was investigated. The use of methods of conceptual and semantic analysis allowed us to establish the presence of the opposite semantic features of the metaphorical models «sleep» and «conscience». The creation of contradictory images is a signal of internal contradictions experienced by the poet, a reflection of his worldview, a way of personal perception, comprehension and interpretation of events. In the process of linguistic and stylistic analysis there are metaphors verbalizing the concepts of «sleep» and «conscience», reflecting the author’s worldview; poetic archaic words that give the work solemnity, create the flavor of the era. Phonostylistic means give expressiveness to the work, and the language of symbols creates additional hidden meanings. The identified linguistic means organize the artistic and semantic space of the poetic work, reflect the author’s unique way of conceptualization of reality. It is proved that the ground of the basic mental model is the conceptual metaphorical model «sleep», incorporating a conceptual matrix characterized by certain semantic features. The research results enhance understanding of the metaphorical modeling mechanism in poetic texts at the microsystem level, the role of conceptual metaphor in the representation of individual knowledge about the world.

Образная (изобразительная) лексика в якутском и бурятском эпосах: лексические параллели

Introduction. The article presents a comparative analysis of the figurative vocabulary of the Yakut and Buryat languages on the basis of epic texts. The figurative vocabulary in both languages is specific part of its lexicon which have a common roots. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the use of lexical parallels of the Yakut and Buryat figurative vocabulary in the texts of the Buryat uliger and Yakut olonkho. The relevance of the study is determined by the growing interest in linguistic folklore in the study of language based on the material of epic texts in order to identify the specifics of the language of the epic as a whole. For research a lexical and semantic analysis and comparative historical method were used. Materials. The texts of the Buryat uliger “Alamzhi Bergen” by E. Shalbykov and the Yakut olonkho “Kyys Debiliye” by N. P. Burnashev, “Mighty Er Sogotokh” by V. O. Karataev, “Khaan Dzhargystai” by unknown olonkhosut from Verkhoyansk were used as material for the study. The three olonkho texts are represented by three main regional epic traditions, which makes it possible to take into account almost all the local features of the olonkho text. Results. The study revealed 12 lexical parallels in the figurative vocabulary presented in the Yakut and Buryat epic texts. These lexical parallels were divided into three thematic groups by the way of description. Thus, first group is figurative words describing the figure, second is the group of words describing facial expressions and face, and the last one is the words describing the shape of objects. A comparative analysis of the revealed lexical parallels showed that they have a emotionally expressive character that allows expressing the narrator’s attitude to the described object, have the same semantic meaning, the same ways of word formation and the general principle of word formation.

National and Cultural Content in Visual Culture Objects: Colour Symbolism of Modern Patriotic Murals

The purpose of the article is to reveal the features of the expression of national and cultural content in the colouring of objects of visual culture on the example of patriotic murals. Research methods. General methodological methods of cognition are applied: logical-analytical, subject-analytical, system-analytical, typological, as well as the method of cultural, hermeneutical, and semantic analysis for the purpose of comprehensive and objective research of the given problem. Scientific novelty. The peculiarities of the expression of national and cultural content in the colouring of objects of visual culture have been studied using the example of patriotic murals; the symbolism of colour in Ukrainian culture has been clarified; a semiotic analysis of the visual representation of the colours of the national flag of Ukraine has been carried out; the variability of the use of the triad of white-black-red and blue-yellow colours in modern murals in the context of expressing national identity has been considered. Conclusions. At the present stage, colour symbolism is actively used for the formation of national identity in works of visual culture. The study has shown that in modern Ukrainian society, semiotic colour codes in objects of visual culture are used in accordance with historical, socio-cultural, and political conditions. The colours of the national flag of Ukraine (as a symbol of the great Ukrainian state, a symbol of victory over enemies, a sign of memory of those who gave their lives for the freedom of their homeland, a way of visualising patriotic feelings) and the triad of white-black-red colours (as a personification of the concentration of the basis of the life-giving essence of the world in Ukrainian cosmology) are most often used to construct national identity and express national and cultural content. Keywords: colour, visual culture, mural, symbolism, semiotics, national-cultural content, national identity.

Digitization of employment: the conceptual apparatus

Purpose: is to develop the theoretical and methodological foundations for the study of digitalization of employment based on an assessment of the depth of penetration of information and communication technologies into labor processes and clarification of the essential characteristics of the phenomenon of "digital employment".Methods: the goal was achieved using traditional methods: desk research, structural and logical analysis, systematization and generalization of information. The empirical database was formed on the basis of sociological methods: a structured survey of the able-bodied population of the Ural Federal District and an expert survey of representatives of the business and scientific community. The scale of digitalization of employment in the region was determined by the methods of statistical analysis. When processing the results of an expert survey, the methods of semantic and SWOT analysis of content were used.Results: the relevance of clarifying the conceptual apparatus of digitalization of employment is problematized. Sociological assessments showed a high level of penetration of information and communication technologies (ICT) into the labor sphere (81.3%) and a variety of formats, modes and nature of employment in the digital segment of the labor market, its differences from the non-digital sector. The intensity of the use of ICT has a high variation: from less than 30% during the working day to 70–100%. IT specialists and specialists who use ICT in their work mainly work remotely or in a hybrid format (51%), while those employed using digital platforms work in the office (66.7%). In the segment of platform employment, there are difficulties with self-identification of the place of work and employment status. The essential features of the phenomenon of "digital employment" are identified and the key criteria for classifying employment as a digital type are expertly substantiated, the author's definition of the concept of "digital employment" is formulated, and an enlarged classification is proposed.Conclusions and Relevance: the application of the author's approach can form the basis for refining the methodology for assessing the scale of digital employment and its characteristics. Digitalization of employment generates both positive and negative consequences. Research on digital employment is promising in terms of sustainability or instability of working conditions and social risks.

Lacunarity and Neology: Diachronic Aspect (Based on the Material of Russian Writers’ Epistolary Texts of the 19th Century)

Purpose. The author considers the problem of establishing a correlation between lacunarity and neologization of the language system in the diachronic aspect using methods of semantic, contrastive, contextual, corpus and quantitative analysis. The material for the study is Russian writers’ epistolary texts of the second half of the 19th century. The author specifies the meaning of the term lacuna in relation to diachrony: a lacuna is an empty cell in the lexical system of a language, revealed retrospectively by detecting means that compensate for it. Results. The author’s classification of lacunae is based on a semiotic criterion: conceptual lacunae are empty cells in the lexical system, which are characterized by the absence of both the signifier and the signified (concept); lexical lacunae are empty cells in the lexical system, which lack a signifier, but have a non-verbalized signified that exists in public or individual consciousness. Conclusion. Extralinguistic and intra-linguistic factors determined the formation and compensation of communicatively significant lacunae in the lexical system at the level of language and speech: changes in the socio-political, economic, cultural life of Russia; interlanguage contacts; the need for nomination or re-designation of the concept; the laws of linguistic regularity, analogy, generalization and differentiation, economy, the tendency to expressiveness.

The specifics of the functioning of a structural metaphor in a public dialogue

The purpose of this study is to identify and describe the specifics of the functioning of metaphorical transference and its role in public dialogue. The material for the analysis was transcribed video recordings of an interview with Daria Zlatopolskaya in the framework of the program "White Studio" of the television channel Culture. The object of the study is a structural metaphor, "that is, those cases when one concept is structurally metaphorically ordered in terms of another" [11, p. 35]. The subject of the study is the process of origin and the nature of the deployment of metaphorical transference in public dialogue. The authors pay special attention to the description of the mechanism (model) of the functioning of metaphor, as well as the integrating function of metaphorical transfer in public dialogue. In addition, the paper presents linguistic tools demonstrating the transfer of signs of the source sphere to the target sphere in metaphorical projection. The method of scientific observation, the descriptive method (including methods of observation, generalization, interpretation), the method of semantic analysis, the method of contextual analysis, the method of pragmatic analysis. The scientific novelty of the study lies in considering the role of structural metaphor in building a public dialogue, in looking at metaphorical transfer not as an unusual use of a word, but as a transfer of one situation to another, unfolding throughout the whole communicative episode or part of it. As a result of the study, it was concluded that metaphorical transference is the result of the co–creation of speakers, the stimulus of which in most cases is set by the presenter. Metaphorical transference connects the communicative episodes of a TV interview as a communicative event, performing an integrating function. During the conversation, the presenter and the interlocutor actualize certain aspects of the source sphere or the target sphere, as a result of which the metaphor narrows or expands. The constant return to a given metaphor determines the nonlinear structure of public dialogue.

The concept of "way" as a characteristic of the image of the hero in the novel by A. A. Fadeev "The Rout"

The subject of the study is the representation of the concept of the "way" in the novel by A. A. Fadeev "The Rout". The purpose of the work is to describe the representations of the concept of "way" as a real space in the novel and as a metaphor for the changes of its characters. The space category reflects the topographical features of the Far East, helping to trace the path of the detachment in the coordinates of space through the point of view of the protagonist. The spatial frame of the narrative is built with the help of specific subject words and toponyms, which mainly represent the remote countryside and the physical geography of the Far East. The attributes that form the natural space in the novel correspond to the negative emotional changes of the characters, revealing the inherent cruelty of the Civil War. When expressing this type of spatial relationship, it is the verb that plays the dominant role, which is based on the separation according to the static/dynamic manifestation of locative semantics, at the same time, verbs of displacement significantly surpass verbs of position. The following methods were used in the course of the study: the method of linguistic description, the method of contextual analysis, and the method of semantic analysis. The text space, as an important part of the content of the novel, depicts fragments of reality, and through the spatial concept of the "way" builds a general spatial picture of the world. The concept of "way" in a metaphorical sense is a subconcept of the concept of "Civil War", in accordance with this, the results of this work enrich the figurative zone of the concept of "Civil War". An analytical algorithm for the study of text space can be applied to the spatial analysis of similar works of art. The result of the study was the conclusion that the "way" is one of the central concepts of the novel. The concept of "way" has a negative connotation, suffering occurs in the process of the detachment's retreat. In addition, A. Fadeev includes spiritual trials in the path of the revolutionary hero, the character completes internal changes in the affirmation of socialist values in external crises and complex character relationships.

Discursive formulas of response in Modern Greek

The article is dedicated to the study of discursive formulas of response in Modern Greek. Discursive formulas of response, i.e. idioms which are used in speech as a reaction to what was previously said by the interlocutor and which reproduce some of the phonetic properties of the previous utterance, constitute one of the most language-specific layers of phraseology and pose a difficulty for a correct decoding and translation. The aim of the article is to describe the little-studied material of Modern Greek formulas of response, to determine their types and specific properties and to identify typical communicative situations in which they are used. The study is based on the instances of use of such structures in literary works, internet texts, movies and series in Modern Greek, along with data from dictionaries. Methods of structural, semantic, contextual and comparative analysis are used. The findings of the study provide evidence that in Modern Greek there exist structures corresponding to the definition of discursive formulas of response. Eight types of such structures can be distinguished based on the type of the initiating utterance: reactions to a question; reactions to an address; reactions to an expression of agreement or disagreement; reactions to an expression of opinion or an evaluation; reactions to a factual statement; reactions to a greeting, a farewell or a well-wish; reactions to an expression of gratitude; reactions to a directive. It is shown, however, that the key role in every case is played by the actual lexical make-up of the initiating utterances. From the authors’ point of view, what is particularly interesting for the comparative analysis of discursive formulas of response in different languages is the fact that some Modern Greek formulas of response have the form of a curse or of an ill-wish.

LEXICAL FEATURES OF THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NEWS MEDIA DISCOURSE IN THE CORONAVIRUS ERA

Background. The article is devoted to the semantic and discursive analysis of lexical units of English-language news articles aimed at highlighting the coronavirus issue in the period of 2020-2022.
 Purpose. The paper presents the results of the analysis of The Guardian news articles devoted to Covid-19 pandemic in the period of 2020-2022.
 Materials and methods. The news articles of The Guardian newspaper devoted to coronavirus issues were selected as the research materials. The methods of semantic and discourse analysis, partial sampling, as well as descriptive method were used in the study.
 Results. The article provides a detailed semantic and discursive analysis of the lexical means used in the texts. The analysis results reveal the most typical lexical means, providing such features as informativeness and expressiveness. The article provides a detailed description of functioning of expressive means in the total number of 2658 units.
 Practical implications. The practical significance of the research lies in the fact that the results obtained can be used in practical classes in the disciplines “Practical course of the English language”, “Foreign (English) language”, “Lexical aspects of translation”, as well as when writing term papers and final qualifying papers.

Study on Multidimensional Perception of National Forest Village Landscape Based on Digital Footprint Support—Anhui Xidi Village as an Example

National Forest Villages in China are village types with significant environmental resources and cultural landscapes that play a vital role in ecological conservation, tourism development, territorial planning, and other elements. Understanding tourists’ landscape perception preferences is important to the long-term development of their landscape systems. Using Xidi village from the second batch of National Forest Villages as a research case, we gathered the evaluation digital footprints of visitors to the village with Python (version 3.12.0) and then used the ROST CM6 software and the semantic network analysis method to sort out the general characteristics of visitors’ perceptions of the village’s landscape. Finally, we constructed a multidimensional landscape perception model by studying precise details of passengers’ views of Xidi village on four dimensions: natural landscape, humanistic landscape, landscape environmental atmosphere, and emotional state. The findings show that travelers’ perceptions of Xidi village’s landscape primarily focus on scenery, architecture, and culture, with the humanistic landscape having the strongest degree of perception, the landscape environment atmosphere having the middle degree of perception, and the natural landscape having a weaker degree of perception. Most travelers have positive emotions, and commercialization and homogenization are negative factors that trigger negative emotions. The optimization recommendations for Xidi village’s landscape system are then offered in light of the study’s findings.

A Comparison of English Learners’ Translation Bias Using Neurosemantic Analysis

Abstract This paper first explores translation bias and bias analysis and comes up with the characteristics of English translation bias. Secondly, the neural semantic analysis method is created by combining corpus technology and a neural machine translation model, and translation optimization is done based on neural semantic analysis. Finally, the performance of the neural semantic analysis method and the translation effect using the neural semantic analysis method are experimented with, and a comparative analysis of bias is carried out. The results show that the average accuracy of document recognition by the method based on neural semantic analysis is around 0.92, the difference between different languages by using neural semantic analysis is around 0.01, and the bias degree of translation techniques and translation units using the neural semantic method has been reduced by 0.17~0.24, and 0.10~0.17, respectively. The use of neural semantic analysis is able to reduce the translation bias of English language learners and thus improve the accuracy of translation.

Phonetic word transformation as a language play technique in modern Russian poetry

The article aims to analyse the specific features of using metaplasms and technically related devices as language play means in modern Russian poetry. Additionally, the study determines their functions in literary texts. The study is relevant as the functions of a language play created with the help of various sound transformations of words have not been studied thoroughly enough. Nevertheless, the extensive use of metaplasms and similar changes in modern Russian poetry indicates the need for a more detailed investigation of this issue. The study relied on the methods of functional, contextual, and semantic analysis. This choice is determined by such poetic text features as the non-randomness of the author’s choice of linguistic means and the fundamental importance of context in their interpretation. The research made it possible to identify the following functions of metaplasms and related linguistic phenomena: 1) comic; 2) gnostic, including its variety – the function of rethinking; 3) hedonistic; 4) pragmatic; 5) iconic; 6) text-forming; 7) stylization function. Recognizing the high importance of metaplasms and related devices as a means to preserve rhyme and meter, the article concludes that it is advisable to consider other functions significant for analysing the meaning of poetic texts. The analysis results complement the theoretical information about the phonetic means of language play available in the scientific literature, thus enabling a detailed philological analysis of poetic text in school and university teaching.

Linguistic forms of radio station promotion

One of the most relevant areas of modern media linguistics is the study of the radio language. Such components of the radio text as the name of the radio station, slogans, refrains, titles of headings and programs can affect the popularity of the media in different ways and contribute to the strengthening of its reputation to varying degrees. The purpose of this study is to characterize the key elements of the radio text that contribute to the promotion at the linguistic level of the brands "Autoradio", radio "Course" and radio "Seeker". The methods of observation, continuous sampling, quantitative and semantic analysis, systematization and comparison of linguistic material are used in the work. It is established that the most significant verbal forms of promotion of the analyzed media brands are the name of the radio and the slogan. The name of the radio allows the listener to correlate the content and the impressions generated, develops stable associations with the radio station. In all three cases, the radio name acts as a strong brand position, reflecting its idea; outside of other speech formulas, it is most often heard on "Autoradio". The slogans serve to reveal the unique concept of each of the radio stations, emphasizing the competitive advantage of each of them; this concept is most clearly revealed in the name and slogans "Autoradio" and radio "Course". The development of the internal image reflected in the verbal logo of the radio station, through the use of language play (primarily polysemy), the use of lexical means emphasizing the exceptional superiority of radio on a certain basis, make the key slogans of media brands unique and effective. In addition to the name of the radio and slogans, the promotion of media brands is facilitated by the use of on-air refrains and the names of categories / programs tied to the name of the radio station, however, such branding potential is not fully used by all auditory media.

The idea of "occurence" in Russian and Chinese Languages and Cultures

The author examines the idea of "occurrence" in two linguistic pictures of the world - Russian and Chinese. The study is comparative. The description of each idea is made according to a clear algorithm: the etymology of the word, the mythological roots of the concept, its compatibility, a comparison of dictionary definitions is made. The aim of the study is to identify the peculiarities of the idea of "occurrence" in the Russian and Chinese languages. The purpose of the comparison is to see the similarities and differences in the worldview of different nations. Scientific methods of research are: comparative-historical method, method of generalization, method of semantic analysis. This topic is understudied, no linguocultural studies analyzing this idea in Russian and Chinese culture have been observed earlier, which constitutes the scientific novelty of the work. The results will contribute to mutual understanding between peoples, forming a kind of conceptual bridge, and will also be used in courses on regional studies, comparative studies of cultures, and in the teaching of the respective languages.

Russian paroemias as a means of activating grammatical and lexical skills in the process of teaching foreign students

Introduction. Currently, Russian paroemias are actively used in the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language in order to improve lessons, increase motivation to learn the language, illustrate typical situations of communication, activate cognitive and thinking abilities of foreign students. The purpose of the article is to describe the process of activating grammar and lexical skills of foreign students with the help of paroemias at different stages of learning. Research methods. In the course of the research we used: the method of directional sampling of material from paroemiological collections and dictionaries; methods of structural, semantic and contextual analysis of proverbs and sayings. Results. Paroemias reflect the folk wisdom, mentality, world outlook, life experience, notions of the surrounding reality, basic values of the Russian people, being important material, which promotes the development of language and communicative and speech skills of foreign students. Various types of assignments with Russian paroemias are used as a means of developing communication skills and abilities, as well as a source of additional scientific knowledge about natural objects, taking into account the direction of student training. Conclusion. The use of Russian paroemias in the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language is the basis for the formation of linguocultural and communicative competence, contributes to the activation of grammatical and lexical skills, the development of monologue and dialogic speech skills, the expansion of the lexicon, the formation of moral principles, the education of tolerant attitude towards language, culture, history, traditions and customs of other nations. The integration of oral folklore in the educational process is relevant for foreign students at different stages of learning. The vocabulary of paroemias is a special language layer, which can also be used by foreign students in their future professional sphere.

Folk Song "Sorrow After Sorrow" In The Works Of Borys Liatoshynsky: Intonation And Semantic Analysis

Relevance of research. Borys Lyatoshynsky (1895–1968) is one of the most outstanding composers of the last century. Many studies have been devoted to the study of his work in various aspects, although this topic remains incomplete and relevant. A manifestation of the composer's national thinking is, among other things, his use of folk melodies as the basis of thematism. A comparison of the composer's methods of working with folk song material in different genres has not yet been the subject of a special scientific study.
 The purpose of the study: to investigate the process of rethinking the folk song "Sorrow after Sorrow" in Lyatoshynsky's works, to consider and compare the principles of the composer's work on the folk melody in the genres of arrangement and symphony.
 Methods. The comparative, historical methods, as well as methods of genre-style, semantic and intonation analysis were used.
 The results and conclusions. The article analyses B. Liatoshynsky's approaches to working with folk song material using examples of works in which the composer refers to the folk song "Sorrow after Sorrow". The principles of processing this folklore sample in the genre of folk song arrangement for voice and piano are highlighted in the context of the evolution of the genre and in relation to the traditions established in Ukrainian music. The commonality of the basic methods of folk song arrangement in the works of M. Leontovych and B. Liatoshynsky is substantiated—the inviolability of the chant as a carrier of the intonation-semantic idea of the work, the usage of the latest compositional techniques of harmonic and textural variation, the development of the most expressive motifs in the accompanying voices or instrumental part, the construction of a through(endto-end) musical dramaturgy that pushes the limits of the original strophicity, the introduction of conceptuality and symphonic thinking into the genre. The place and role of the folk song melody "Sorrow after Sorrow" in the Third Symphony of B. Liatoshynsky is considered, the process of its involvement into the complex symphonic development is characterized: the inclusion of the theme into the leitmotif system of the symphonic cycle, the usage of intonational variation techniques, methods of timbral dramaturgy, polyphonic and motivic development in relation to the theme, due to which the theme appears in various figurative and emotional gradations, undergoes significant changes up to its transformation (the principle of monothemism).
 Conclusions are made regarding the continuity of the stages of working with the folklore primary source in the researched works of Liatoshynsky: in the genre of arrangement, a peculiar adaptation of the folk song sample to the field of academic music takes place, in the process of its compositional development, the intonational-semantic core—the motif of regret—is distinguished. At the next stage, this motif becomes the basis for a complex figurative and thematic development and author’s reinterpretation in works of other genres, an impetus for the implementation of significant symphonic concepts.

Stereotypical Representation of a Cybervictim in Russian Students’ Language Consciousness based on the Material of the Chain Associative Experiment

Currently, the study of victimization and victim behavior as phenomena of modern cyberspace in the aspect of their stereotyping in the language consciousness of young people is a topical problem due to some extralinguistic reasons, such as massive involvement of young people in virtual communication, anonymity of cybercommunication and lack of legal liability for deviant behavior on the Internet, people’s ignorance of the need to correctly configure the privacy settings of their personal accounts, etc. This research is aimed at revealing the stereotypical representation of a cybervictim in the language consciousness of Russian students. The novelty of the phenomenon of cybercommunication and the insufficient scientific research data within the framework of psycholinguistics indicate the theoretical and practical significance of such studies. To solve the tasks set, the chain associative experiment in the form of an online questionnaire was conducted among students of all educational specializations of Kemerovo State University. The study of the respondents’ associative reactions with the use of methods of morphosyntactic analysis and semantic gestalt analysis made it possible to identify the semantic domains, on the basis of which the associative field was modeled, which characterizes the stereotypical representation of a cybervictim in the linguistic consciousness of Russian students. The results allow the authors to conclude that, from the viewpoint of young people, a cybervictim as a participant in the Internet communication does not evoke associations related to nationality, sex, age, profession. With a generally positive attitude to a cybervictim arousing sympathy, respondents point out the inability of such a person to take actions, which makes it possible to interpret the stereotypical image of a cybervictim as of a person without their own life philosophy or unable to defend it for physiological or psychological reasons, that negates the possibility to influence the communicative situation of this type.

Knowledge Base Question Answering via Semantic Analysis

Knowledge Question Answering is one of the important research directions in the field of robot intelligence. It is mainly based on background knowledge to analyze users’ questions and generate answers. It is one of the important application methods of knowledge graph technology. Compared with the traditional expert system of question and answer, it has the advantage of a large-scale background knowledge base and the traceability and interpretability of the question-answering process. Compared with the current ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) technology, it has advantages in the proprietary segmentation field. Aiming at the problem of the accuracy of existing knowledge question-answering methods being low, this paper studies the method of semantic analysis for knowledge question-answering under the support of a knowledge database, proposes a knowledge question-answering method based on the superposition of multiple neural network models, and conducts experimental verification on the publicly available NLPCC2016KBQA(Knowledge Q&A Tasks in the 2016 Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing Conference) data set. The experimental results show that the F1 value of this method is higher than that of the baseline model.

TOPIC MODELING IN COVID-19 VACCINATION REFUSAL CASES USING LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION AND LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

COVID -19 vaccination is a program provided by the Indonesian government to minimize the spread of the virus. The COVID-19 vaccination program in Indonesia goes hand in hand with issues that are circulating, causing controversy and rejection of vaccination on social media, especially Twitter. There are many factors that influence vaccine rejection on Twitter, to summarize frequently discussed topics and find out hidden topics, this study uses the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) methods from 1797 Twitter scrapping data. Both models require a set of words that have been converted into a matrix, so before conducting LDA topic modeling, the dataset will undergo a bag of word (BOW) calculation. Meanwhile, in LSA topic modeling, the existing dataset will undergo word weighting of frequently occurring words using Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF). This study was conducted to find and summarize hidden information in the form of frequently discussed topics, thus understanding public opinions related to the COVID -19 vaccination refusal case. LDA and LSA methods will display topics based on the probability and mathematical calculations of word occurrences in each topic in the document. The topics that appear will be further analyzed through coherence score by applying a limit of 20 topics to display the best value. Further modeling experiments are carried out to display topics through LDA and LSA models, this study takes 6 topics with the highest coherence values including the right of individuals to choose whether to be vaccinated or not (0.484607), the Ribka Tjiptaning controversy (0.473368), rejection of the COVID-19 vaccine by groups represented by public figures (0.463631), punishment for non-compliance in the form of fines (0.324924), and halal certification (0.312521).