Орехов Борис В

Boris Valerievich Orekhov is a Russian philologist specializing in Digital Humanities, corpus linguistics, verse studies, and historical poetics. He holds a Candidate of Sciences degree in Philology (2008, Voronezh State University).

Since 2013, he has been working as an Associate Professor at the HSE University (Moscow), and since 2022, he has also been a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. He has taught and conducted research as a visiting scholar at St. Petersburg State University, the European University at St. Petersburg, the University of Nice (France), the University of Oslo (Norway), the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow), and other academic institutions.

Orekhov's research interests include corpus linguistics, digital methods in the humanities, artificial intelligence and its application in poetics, theoretical sociology, and verse studies. He has contributed to the creation and development of several major corpus and web-based projects: the Russian National Corpus, "Volume 91" (an electronic index to the complete works of Leo Tolstoy), a parallel corpus of translations of The Tale of Igor's Campaign, the Bashkir Poetic Corpus, the Corpus of Minority Languages of Russia on the Internet, the folklore archive of Bashkir State University, "Tyutcheviana," and the Greek Drama Corpus.

He is the author of over 60 scientific publications, including two monographs: Bashkir Verse of the 20th Century: A Corpus Study(2019) and The Electronic Lyre: How and Why Artificial Intelligence Writes Poetry (2026). He regularly publishes in leading Russian and international journals on digital stylometry, corpus linguistics, and literary history. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Digital Humanities Research and a member of the editorial board of Quantitative Philology. In the past, he served as Executive Secretary and Editor-in-Chief for several other academic journals.

He is proficient in the programming languages Python, Perl, PHP, and R, works with the LaTeX typesetting system and font creation, and speaks English, French, Polish, and Serbian.