> any NLP task that performs anywhere near as well on Russian as it does on English This has a lot more to do with smaller Russian corpora than anything to do

> any NLP task that performs anywhere near as well on Russian as it does on English This has a lot more to do with smaller Russian corpora than anything to do with peculiarities of the Russian language. > This applies to all languages BTW. There are only very, very few NLP systems that actually work, and they are all in a setting which tolerates a fairly high error rate (e.g. ranking). I've trained NLP models used on over 15 different languages used in production