Abstracts:

Computer using in humanitarian and in particular, folkloristic, researches is one of urgent problems of development of information technologies. Thus, the creation of the reach gathered texts databases and electronic indexes (as a rule closed and having restrictions) as tools of the analysis, not always justifies itself because of their complex - hierarchical structure. Real alternative to them in the work of the computer philological analysis of the texts is the application of search systems of a type Yandex. The Yandex advantage as compared with other databases is, firstly, the intellectual search and, secondly, the search on the unlimited number of textual parameters, set by the researcher.
A folklore text differs from the texts of literary character by special stereotypes both in content and in form. " For this reason a folklore text has no, so to say, "casual” words. Each word of a folklore text either reflects the certain layer of philosophy of life, mythological, of religious, traditional-poetic representations or is a component of plots, subject situations and courses, motives, functions and formulas. Using the easy (from the user point of view) interface of the Yandex search system will help the analysis and comprehension of the folklore texts nature and folklore as a whole on qualitative a new level.
Taking into account the technical Yandex adaptation to the texts of folklore character (namely, necessity of creation of the specialized dictionary reflecting not literary, peripheral areas of language), the same genre published of semeysky folklore (almost 90 % of the issued records belongs to the semeysky singing), locality of their music tradition, relative affinity of language of the publications of their folklore to literary language (the overwhelming majority of the texts is issued in 1930-1960. It was not characteristic of the folklorists-philologists aspiration to literal transfer of all features of a pronunciation and language), we undertake experience of approbation and revealing of potential opportunities of the given search system on an example of a material assembled at semeysky Old Believers of Transbaikalia.

*The research is executed with support of the grant of the Open Society Institute.