Materials of DIALOGUE 2026

Program (PDF)
10-30 – 10-45 \ Opening

Welcoming remarks by T.V. Kortava, Vice-Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University

“Dialogue” at a new stage \\ N.V. Lukashevich, V.P. Selegey, S.G. Tatevosov (offline)

10-45 – 11-35 \ Invited speaker

Semantic Competencies of Large Language Models \\ A.V. Podobryaev (HSE University)

11-35 – 12-25 \ Plenary session: LLM meets linguistics—1

Analysing Automatic Frame Detection in Natural Language Tests \\ Denis Shcherbatov (Vinogradov Russian Language Institute RAS); Olga Lyashevskaya (HSE University) (offline)

Morphology and Emotion Recognition: How Verb Form Affects Language Model Predictions \\ Polina Iaroshenko, Anastasiia Petrova, Natalia Loukachevitch (Lomonosov MSU)  (offline)

12-25 -12-50 \ Coffee break
12-50 – 14-05 \ Plenary session: LLM meets linguistics—2

Belarusian Word Forms Morpheme Segmentation: Data and Evaluation \\ Dmitry Morozov (Russian National Corpus; Novosibirsk State University); Olga Shcherbakova, Lizaveta Astapenka (Independent researchers) (offline)

Scaling Zero-shot Machine Translation on LowResource Languages with Linguistic Grammars \\ Evgeniya Orlova, Valeria Bykova, Albert Kornilov, Tatiana Shavrina (HSE University) (online)

Russian Pronouns with Focus Antecedents: Coreference and Binding in Corpora \\ Daniel Tiskin (HSE University; ILS RAS)  (offline)

14-05 – 15-00 \ Lunch
15-00 – 15-50 \ Invited speaker

From Model to Agent: How Generative AI is Changing Legal Information Management and the Development of Legal Reference Systems \\ R.V. Ukrainsky (Research and Innovation Project, Garant Company) (online)

15-50 – 16-40 \ Parallel session: LLM in law

Contradiction Detection in Administrative Offense Rulings: A Case Study Analysis \\ Elena Kozlova (DM Solutions); Maria Petrova (DM Solutions; Institute of Linguistics RAS); Alexandra Baiuk (Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, DM Solutions) (offline)

Legal Markup for Reasoning: discursive analysis of tax law court decision texts \\ Alisa Lukyanchikova, Olga Ipatova, Viktoria Zhilyaeva, Anastasia Kolmogorova (HSE University); Aleksandr Migal (NTR Labs); Nikolay Mikhaylovskiy (Higher IT School TSU; NTR Labs) (online)

15-50 – 16-40 \ Parallel Session: Quantitative Methods in Grammar and Semantics—1

Is metonymy the prevalent cognitive mechanism of semantic shifts? Evidence from the DatSemShift database \\ Anna Smirnitskaya (Institute of Oriental Studies RAS; Institute of Linguistics RAS) (online)

Positional alignment of consonant cluster variability in early speech including effect of morphology \\ Anastasia Chuprina (ALTA Institute, University of Cambridge) (online)

16-40 – 17-00 \ Coffee break
17-00 – 18-40 \ Parallel Session: Benchmarks and datasets—1

LLMTF: An Open Framework and Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Russian \\ Mikhail Tikhomirov, Evgenii Zlunikin, Denis Grigoriev, Daniil Chernyshev (Research Computing Center, Lomonosov MSU) (offline)

Can LLM Teams Play What? Where? When? \\ Anastasia Kotelnikova, Viktor Byzov, Maria Dolzhenkova (Vyatka State University); Evgeny Kotelnikov (European University at St Petersburg) (online)

RusLan-M: Technical Design and Processing Pipeline of a Longitudinal Multimedia Corpus of Russian Child Speech \\ Valeriia Lelik, Mariia Dyachkova, Svetlana Dorofeeva (HSE University); Anastasiya Lopukhina (Royal Holloway, University of London); Olga Dragoy (HSE University; Institute of Linguistics RAS); Irina A. Sekerina (CUNY CSI; Ph.D. Programs in Linguistics and Psychology, The CUNY Graduate Center) (online)

Stop taking your word for it: a new synthetic dataset for verifying statements and reducing hallucinations of Russian-speaking LLM \\ Е.А. Stelmak (HSE University) (online)

17-00 – 18-15 \ Parallel Session: Theoretical Semantics and Pragmatics—1

Types of “contiguity relations” in the Database of Semantic Shifts in languages of the world  \\ Anna A. Zalizniak  (Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Informatics Problems of the Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences) (online)

Semantic sources of reported speech markers: based on the German-Russian parallel corpus  \\ D. O. Dobrovol’skij  (Russian Language Institute of the RAS; Institute of Linguistics of the RAS ); Anna A. Zalizniak (Institute of Linguistics of the RAS); I. B. Levontina (Russian Language Institute of the RAS) (online)

10-30 – 12-10 \ Parallel Session: Computational Morphology and Syntax—1

Automatic Processing of Russian Verb-Noun Collocations Using Large Language Models \\ Vera Krasnobaeva (AI Talent Hub, ITMO University) (offline)

Beyond Accuracy: Systematic Errors in Russian Morphological Analyzers and the Ensemble Consensus-based Approach \\Valery Solovyev, Anna Ivleva (Laboratory of Linguistics and AI, Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication KFU) (offline)

Russian Neural Morphological Tagging: Does Grammeme Order Matter? \\ Nikita Shcherbak, Andrei Movsesian (IITP RAS) (offline)

Extending Retag to Detect Conversion Errors in Syntactic Annotation: SynTagRus as a Case Study \\ Daniil Timchenko (MIPT); Andrei Movsesian (IITP RAS) (offline)

10-30 – 12-10 \ Parallel Session: Multimodal Research—1

Co-construction and the structure of interaction in conversation \\ Nikolay Korotaev (Institute of Linguistics, RAS; RSUH) (online)

‘Both Face, and Clothing, and Soul, and Thoughts’: The Prosody of Nominal Coordination in Spoken Russian Corpora \\ Vera Podlesskaya (Institute of Linguistics, RAS) (online)

Quantitative Methods in Grammar and Semantics—2

Quantitative Profiling and Cluster Analysis of Coordinators in Contemporary French \\ Yulia Auseichyk (BSUFL) (online)

Corpus-Based Study of Chinese Constructions: Negative Evaluation Constructions in the CCGD Database  \\Li Yunqing (Moscow state university); Wen Simin (Huzhou normal university) (offline)

12-10 – 12-30 \ Coffee break
12-30 – 13-45  \ Parallel Session: Computational Morphology and Syntax—2

Ossetic-COT: Designing a morphologically annotated corpus and morphological analyzer for Ossetic \\ Anna Shatskikh (Lomonosov MSU): Alexey Sorokin (Lomonosov MSU; Yandex) (offline)

Correcting or Rewriting? An Expert Evaluation of LLM-Based GEC on Academic Learner Data \\ Elizaveta Kopylova, O.G. Tsegoeva, Vlada Berlin, Anastasia Vyrenkova, Yulia Kuvshinskaya (HSE University) (offline)

Building Chukchi Corpora: A Chuckchi–Russian Parallel Corpus and a Monolingual Chuckchi Corpus for Low-Resource NLP \\ Sergey Gofman, Egor Lebedev, Anton Perfilev, Elizaveta Plohuta-Plakutina, Liudmila Shlyakhtina (HSE University) (offline)

12-30 – 13-45 \ Parallel Session: Theoretical Semantics and Pragmatics—2

Numerical Quantification and Internal Scope: Toward an Analysis of Repetitive Verbs in Russian \\ I. M. Boguslavsky (IITP, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) (offline)

The scope of the particles da ‘yes’ and net ‘no’ answering yes-no question in Russian (towards the phenomenon of “weak semantics”) \\ A. N. Baranov  (Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, RAS) (offline)

Russian negation: rules of linearization and accentuation \\ A.V. Zimmerling (Pushkin State Russian Language Institute; Institute of Linguistics, RAS) (online)

13-45- 14-30 \ Lunch
14-30 – 16-10 \ Parallel Session: Benchmarks and Datasets—2

RuSafety: A Russian Dataset for Evaluating the Safety of Large Language Models \\ Anastasia Limonova, Kseniia Studenikina (Lomonosov MSU) (offline)

RusHallu-RAG: benchmarking hallucination detection for Russian RAG \\ Fedor Sadkovskii (MSU AI Center; Institute of Linguistics RAS); Regina Nasyrova (MSU AI Center); Alexey Sorokin (MSU AI Center; Yandex) (offline)

KazFakeCorpus: A bilingual multi-level corpus for semantic detection of fake news \\ Anargul Nekessova (L.N. Gumilyov ENU); Elena Sidorova (IIS SB RAS); Zhanar Lamasheva, Madina Sambetbayeva (L.N. Gumilyov ENU); Aigerim Yerimbetova (IICT CS MSHE RK; School of Engineering and IT, META University); Mira Kaldarova (Higher School of IT&E AIU); Aksaule Nazymkhan (L.N. Gumilyov ENU) (offline)

Argument Mining for Film Reviews \\ Anna Serbina (Electronic Office Systems); Viktoria Borisova, Inna Rabinovich (Lomonosov MSU) (offline)

14-30 – 16-10 \ Parallel Session: Experimental Linguistics

Pauses in the speech of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders  \\ Maria S. Kravchuk (MSU); Maria A. Omelchenko (Central state medical academy of department of presidential affairs); Taisia E. Tyshchishina, Olga V. Fedorova (MSU) (offline)

The Role of Controller-Target Order in the Processing of Gender and Number Agreement: an Experimental Study on Russian  \\ Natalia Slioussar, Daria Antropova (HSE University) (offline)

Syntactic ambiguity resolution: In search of optimal methodology \\ Anna V. Alkhazova, Alena A. Zarudneva, Anastasia V. Krainova, Anastasia B. Saveleva, Maria B. Panich, Olga V. Fedorova (MSU) (offline)

Narratives in Russian as L2: local discourse structure mediated by the level of language proficiency \\ Maria Kiose (Moscow State Linguistic University, Institute of Linguistics RAS); Anastasia Rzheshevskaya, Vadim Potekhin (Moscow State Linguistic University) (offline)

16-10 – 16-30 \ Coffee break
16-30 – 18-10 \ Parallel Session: Applications—1

Robot-Companion in Chinese Language Learning: Experimental Evaluation of Effectiveness and the Role of Non-Verbal Cues  \\ Е.S. Dubinina; А.А. Kotov, А.А. Zinina, N.A.Arinkin (MSLU; National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”) (offline)

Extracting Intentional Boundaries: Evaluating LLM on Greeting and Goodbye Sequences in Russian Dialogue \\ Ksenia Klokova (MIPT); Maxim Krongauz (RSUH); Valery Shulginov, Tatiana Yudina (MIPT) (online)

WorkBench-RU: Can Agents Solve Multi-Step Workplace Tasks Beyond English? \\ Timur Ionov, Valentin Malych (ITMO University) (online)

Towards Neural PIE Reconstruction from Heterogenous Cognate Data \\ Konstantin Kalinowski, Valentin Malych (ITMO University) (offline)

16-30 – 17-45 \ Parallel Session: Corpus Linguistics—1

The Communicative Matrix of the Photographic Inscription: A Gender Perspective (a Case Study of the “History of Russia in Photographs” Archive)  \\ X. A. Peresypkina  (SPbSU) (offline)

Toward a multilingual FrameNet of ancient Indo-European languages \\ Silvia Luraghi, Chiara Zanchi, Luca Brigada Villa (University of Pavia) (offline\online)

Errors in the Use of Nouns When Reading Aloud Coherent Texts in Russian by Schoolchildren with and without Reading Disorders: A Corpus-Based Case Study \\ Viktoria Koltuntseva, Alexeeva Svetlana (HSE University) (online)

10-30 -12-10 \ Parallel Session: Computational Semantics

Structure-Oriented Approach to Logical Fallacy Detection in Russian Texts Using Agentic Language Models \\ Timofey Kravchenko (Novosibirsk State University); Elena Sidorova (IIS SB RAS) (online)

A Study of Coreference Resolution for RussianLanguage Texts from a Limited Subject Domain \\ Roman Shuvalov (Novosibirsk State University); Daria Ilina, Irina Kononenko, Elena Sidorova (IIS SB RAS) (online)

Automatic Sarcasm Detection in Russian Texts \\ Maria Obridko (HSE University) (offline)

Can AI Agents Do Diachronic Linguistics? LLMs Meet the Russian National Corpus \\ Darya Kharlamova, Andrey Yakuboy, Kirill Vasilev (HSE University); Evgeniya Budennaya (HSE University; Institute of Linguistics RAS) (online)

10-30 – 12-10 \ Parallel Session: Accurate Methods for Describing Less-Studied Languages

One man is no man: static and dynamic approaches to describing the vocal systems of minority languages (case study on Kumyk and Mansi) \\ Anna V. Alkhazova, Elizaveta P. Dorofeeva, Maria I. Satina, Kirill K. Lesnyak (MSU) (offline)

On two wh-indeterminate constructions  \\  Danil A. Alekseev, Andrei V. Sideltsev (Institute of Linguistics RAS) (offline)

Semantic profile of Turkish: macroshifts \\ Ilya Gruntov (Institute of Linguistics RAS; Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (online)

12-10 – 12-30 \ Coffee break
12-30 – 13-20 \ Invited speaker (offline)

Plenary report: Visual language models in the task of describing paintings \\ А.V. Kolmogorova (HSE University)

13-20 – 14-10 \ Parallel Session: Processing Atypical Speech

To Shorten or to Lengthen? Output Strategies of ASR Models in Atypical Speech Recognition \\ Anastasia Kolmogorova, Ekaterina Yavshits, Milana Majorova, Sophia Dmitrijeva (HSE University) (offline)

Bimodal detection of cognitive impairment in humans through analysis of speech and textual data in multiple languages \\ Mikhail Dolgushin, Anastasia Dvoynikova, Alexey Karpov (SPC RAS) (online)

13-20 – 14-10 \ Parallel Session: Corpus linguistics—2

Corpus-Statistical Model for Assessing the Entrenchment of Derivatives  \\ E. V. Vasileva  (Irkutsk State University)  (offline)

14-10 – 15-00 \ Lunch
15-00 – 16-40 \ Parallel Session: Applications—2

Standard and Dagestani Russian in automatic speech recognition: weaknesses of ASR systems \\ Artiom Katsnelson, Olga Lyashevskaya (HSE University) (offline)

RIDER: Reproducible Evolutionary Prompt Search for NLP with Adaptive Operator Allocation  \\ Daglar Dragomirov (ITMO University); Ivan Blekanov (SPbU); Nikita Kulin, Sergey Muravyov (ITMO University) (online)

Comparing Methods for Automatic Annotation of Speech Formulas in Russian Internet Discourse: A Pilot Study \\ Aleksandra S. Maslenikova (HSE University); Tatiana I. Popova (HSE University; Saint Petersburg State University) (online)

15-00 – 16-40 \ Parallel Session: Multimodal Research—2

Russian discourse word aga ‘aha’ as a marker of propositional attitude: functions and prosody  \\ Т.Е. Yanko (Institute of Linguistics) (online)

The Whole Contour in a Single Syllable: Intonation of A-Echo Questions in Middle Russian Dialects  \\ Sergey V. Knyazev (Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, RAS); Vera E. Monina (HSE University) (offline)

Functioning and linguistic integration of emblematic gestures in Russian Sign Language \\ Elizaveta Filimonova (Institute of Linguistics RAS) (offline)

Form, place, or movement? How iconicity works in Russian sign language \\ Yulia Nikolaeva (Lomonosov MSU, HSE University Institute of Linguistics, RAS); Ksenia Kutovich (Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts, Institute of Linguistics, RAS ); Anna Kolesnikova (Lomonosov MSU) (offline)

17-00 \ Closing