Learning Abai's Poems with Corpus Technology

Abstract

The article discusses the features of studying Abai's poetics using corpus technology. The research and creation of corpora of Kazakh poetic texts is important not only for industry specialists, but also relevant as a social task. In the works of foreign and Russian scientists there is information that after the creation of the corpus, academic dictionaries and grammars were revised and rewritten. Thus, there is a need to create a small corpus of the Abai language, consider the possibilities of using language corpora based on the texts of the Kazakh literary language and develop a scientific and theoretical justification for the implementation of these possibilities. After all, the use of the results obtained in compiling a language corpus, in particular, when compiling various dictionaries, rewriting scientific grammar or defining certain linguistic phenomena, is important not only for the further development of corpus linguistics, but also for the formation of a new technology for scientific research. Another function of the corpus is to provide various references related to vocabulary, grammar, accentology, and history of the language. Modern computer technologies greatly simplify and speed up the process of linguistic text processing. By improving the corpus of poetic text, it is possible to create a small corpus of the Abai language, improve the functions of electronic language corpora, conduct lexicographic research, and create the basis for a scientific methodology for automating the small corpus of the Abai language. Generalization and implementation of the vocabulary wealth of Abai’s language into the corpus will be a key step towards transforming the Kazakh language into the language of science, the language of IT platforms and technology, raising it to the level of a language of global demand.

Keywords: corpus linguistics, national corpus, information technologies, corpus technologies, Abai's poetry, Kazakh poetic text