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Student Research Paper Competition 2020 Accepting Submissions

Student Research Paper Competition 2020 Accepting Submissions
Any student or 2020 graduate of a Russian or international university is eligible to take part in the Student Research Paper Competition. Papers can be submitted from September 1 to October 15. The competition has been held at HSE University since 2003.

HSE University Returns to Campus

HSE University Returns to Campus
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HSE Scholars to Participate in Creating a New Platform for Russian National Corpus

HSE Scholars to Participate in Creating a New Platform for Russian National Corpus
The Russian Ministry of Education and Science has announced the results of a grant competition for big research projects. One of the winners is a project with HSE University participation: the creation of a next generation computational linguistic platform to digitally record the Russian language.

HSE University Launches Project on Automated Exam Checking

HSE University Launches Project on Automated Exam Checking
During this summer’s exams, HSE School of Foreign Languages and the Centre for Computational Educational Sciences launched a pilot project for the automated checking of student exams. Ekaterina Kolesnikova, Head of the School of Foreign Languages, Dmitry Abbakumov, Head of the Centre for Computational Educational Sciences, and Daria Kravchenko, Deputy Head of the centre, spoke about the project and its future prospects.

‘Society’s Demand for Research in the Humanities Is Increasing’

‘Society’s Demand for Research in the Humanities Is Increasing’
Anastasia Ugleva on the restructuring of the Faculty of Humanities

Essay by Maxim Miroshnichenko at Knife.Media Journal

Essay by Maxim Miroshnichenko at Knife.Media Journal
Maxim Miroshnichenko, research assistant at Center for History of Ideas and Sociology of Knowledge, has published the essay at the Internet-journal on contemporary culture and society knife.media.

Lingtypology – the package for linguistic mapping and typology – is four years old.

Photo by Slava Zamyslov
Until four years ago there was no simple tool for linguists to mark a set of points on a map with different colors. A point corresponded to a language, and its color corresponded to a linguistic feature of the language. This inspired George Moroz, of HSE’s Linguistic Convergence Laboratory and School of Linguistics, to create a new software product that turned out to be very popular: lingtypology.

A Viral Critique of Modern Society

A Viral Critique of Modern Society
The coronavirus pandemic is transforming modern society, reviving old social practices and formulas such as the Russian ‘flat-car-dacha’ principle, while opening new technological frontiers and creating new cultural skills. Professor Vitaly Kurennoy, Head of HSE’s School of Cultural Studies, discusses these issues in an op-ed for Izvestiia. Read the full translation of the article below.

Olga Dragoy spoke about the distribution of functions in the right and left hemispheres of the brain

Olga Dragoy spoke about the distribution of functions in the right and left hemispheres of the brain
The portal “My Planet” published a popular science article by the director of the HSE Center for Language and Brain Olga Dragoy.

Svetlana Dorofeeva from HSE Center for Language and Brain made a report at the online conference "Children's Learning Difficulties"

Svetlana Dorofeeva from HSE Center for Language and Brain made a report at the online conference on developmental dyslexia