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This study describes the experimentally developed technique of sentiment analysis in an automatic semantic parser that processes daily news input blocks. The 2022 time period was used to analyze news in Telegram channels published by twelve official news agencies and five influential non-official news sources. In the advanced analytical system that we present, automatic learning is combined with a frame-based approach to identify patterns that influence judgments based on a frame representation of the text. The parser analyzes the syntactic structure of each sentence input, constructs its semantic representation, and associates it with one of 3800 semantic frames extracted from a large text corpus. The research revealed that the relative frequency and combination of frames varied between the two groups of news sources. The results prove that news is conceptualized and represented by various media sources in very different ways with the potential to affect the recipient's beliefs and emotions.

The study presents the experimentally developed technique to determine how and where semantic categories are represented in the human brain. For this purpose, the combination of linguistic annotation of oral texts in Russian with the registration of BOLD signal in functional MRI subjects’ testing was applied. The goal is to correlate groups of words in input texts and patterns of brain activation. The algorithm of the texts’ markup consisted of four sequential procedures: (1) time annotation, (2) lemmatization, (3) vectorization, (4) indexation of words-attributes. Regarding the issue of brain activity allocation, the corresponding activation distributed nature can be noted. It proves our hypothesis that conceptual information during text comprehension is processed in different (however specific) areas of the brain and is not compactly localized. The main result is that the allocated lexical clusters are composed of paradigmatically close words (synonyms, hyponyms) and situationally related words.

The study presents the experimentally developed technique to determine how and where semantic categories are represented in the human brain. For this purpose, the combination of linguistic annotation of oral texts in Russian with the registration of BOLD signal in functional MRI subjects’ testing was applied. The goal is to correlate groups of words in input texts and patterns of brain activation. The algorithm of the texts’ markup consisted of four sequential procedures: (1) time annotation, (2) lemmatization, (3) vectorization, (4) indexation of words-attributes. Regarding the issue of brain activity allocation, the corresponding activation distributed nature can be noted. It proves our hypothesis that conceptual information during text comprehension is processed in different (however specific) areas of the brain and is not compactly localized. The main result is that the allocated lexical clusters are composed of paradigmatically close words (synonyms, hyponyms) and situationally related words.

The results were obtained in the course of a two-stage study. At the first stage (2018) linguists analyzed the conceptualdomain sociocultural challenges on the basis of purposely elaborated Russian language THREAT-corpus (10.4 m words)and built a frame of the domain. At the second stage (2018-2019) the research was carried out with methods of automatedtopic modeling for two Russian language corpora: THREAT-corpus and alternative corpus collected using WebBootCaTtool in the SketchEngine corpus management system. Methods of topic modeling (PLSA, LDA, BigARTM et al.) allowedeliciting thematic profiles for texts of both corpora. Comparison of two datasets was carried out by applying set theory,graph theory, and probabilistic analysis. Combining topic modeling with linguistic frame analysis resulted in more pre-cise configurations of cognitive models in the conceptual domain sociocultural challenges. Word frequency for lexemesmanifesting sociocultural challenges proved to be an important factor of conceptual structures representation.

This article seeks to describe the dynamics of COVID-19 in the Baltic States and to analyse the ways of communicating the threat and its consequences. Particular attention is paid to the media strategies pursued in the study area. The research is based on Russian and English texts from the Baltic media, WHO official documents and datasets, as well as initiatives of the Baltic Sea region organisations (2020) counteracting COVID-19. A combination of these sources builds up an objective view of the situation and demonstrates how the pandemic and its consequences are represented in public consciousness given a certain pragmatic goal. The pandemic is a new type of threat; its consequences demonstrate a tendency towards negative synergy and a category shift from soft threats to hard ones. The research shows that several key strategies - counter-active, projective, conservative, mobilising, resilient, and reflective - are used to communicate the threat and its consequences in the media.

Aggression speech patterns (ASP) strongly influence modern culture and ideology, they are regular source domain forconceptual metaphors. The study was based on THREAT-corpus (Russian language, 5 mln words) which was constructedto study ASP and contains fiction, non-fiction, news texts. The aim of the study is to investigate non-metaphoric andmetaphoric ASP in Russian. A semantic parser was designed to automatically process texts and construct conceptualrepresentations: They killed all the enemies (non-metaphoric)/He killed the time (metaphoric) [Ag-CAUSE HARM-Pat]. After extracting conceptual representations the parser evaluates them as aggressive or non-aggressive. An exampleMechanical toys pushed forward the imagination of scientists is evaluated as aggressive. Although this evaluation is false-positive, it reveals the conceptual metaphor where mental causation is described as voluntary action. This set of methodsmakes possible to collect, detect and describe ASP in diverse types of discourse and, consequently, to analyze the cognitivenature of aggression.

Chaining the sequence of events through awareness of their temporal relations is an important aspect of text un-derstanding. As a rule, text provides only partial knowledge of event unfolding however various types of additional sources(documents, personal diaries, etc.) provide an added knowledge to make chronology more precise.The paper argues the novel approach to automated retrieval of information on temporal relations between events marked inthe text. The data retrieved will provide additions to computer ontology which formally represents the actual events chronology.A system of linguistic algorithms for analyzing the contexts with specific verbal (or linguistic situations) inputs is suggestedwithin the present approach. We use syntactic graphs of the sentences and some grammatical characteristics of the wordsproduced by the system for the automatic syntactic analysis of Russian texts.