Vopros

Vopros is a Russian corpus of religious Q&A texts (questions and published answers) collected from several Russian Orthodox web portals in December 2025.

Sources

azbyka.ru (Q&A sections)
foma.ru (Q&A sections)
elitsy.ru (Orthodox social network; Q&A content)
pravmir.ru (“Orthodoxy and the World”; Q&A content)

Answers are not always authored by priests. In many cases they are provided by other church-affiliated respondents (e.g., deacons, readers) authorized by the portals to answer questions.

Document structure

<doc> metadata: doc.date, doc.portal, doc.question, doc.text_id, doc.url.
Q&A segmentation: <question> and <answer>.
Sentence segmentation: <s>.

Linguistic annotation

The corpus is annotated in the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework using UDPipe (lemmatization and UPOS tagging; morphological features in UD FEATS format). The tagger/lemmatizer model is based on UD Russian SynTagRus.

Tagset and annotation notes: corpora.fisun.org/corpus-pages/tagset.html.

Size (current index)

Item	Count
Documents (`<doc>`)	67,771
Sentences (`<s>`)	1,116,200
Answer segments (`<answer>`)	94,277

Portal distribution

Portal	Documents
elitsy	48,686
foma	9,973
azbyka	6,670
pravmir	2,442

How to cite

Fisun, Roman. 2025. Vopros: Russian Orthodox Q&A Corpus. Compiled from azbyka.ru, foma.ru, elitsy.ru, pravmir.ru (data collected in December 2025). Available at: https://corpora.fisun.org/ (corpus name: vopros). Accessed: <YYYY-MM-DD>.

Software

NoSketch Engine (corpus query system): see the official overview page. sketchengine.eu/nosketch-engine
UDPipe (tokenization/lemmatization/tagging): ufal.mff.cuni.cz/udpipe

Terms of use

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Contact

Maintainer: roman.fisun@ur.de