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Our organization, the Laboratory of Comparative Human 
Cognition (LCHC) at the University of California, San Diego, is 
carrying on a collaborative project with the independent VEGA 
International Laboratory in Moscow to expand telecommuni-
cation contacts between humanities scholars in Russia and 
their counterparts in the West.  As part of this project, VEGA 
in September 1991 opened a public-access electronic mail 
address (PSY-PUB) on their premises, through which any 
humanities scholar in the Russian Academy of Sciences may 
send and receive messages.
	LCHC routinely receives messages from PSY-PUB and 
forwards them to potential Western partners (both individual 
scholars and scholarly organizations).  We received the 
following announcement from PSY-PUB yesterday.  It comes 
from a scholarly center known as YAZYKO-ZNANIE, which 
specializes in quantitative linguistics, textual analysis, and 
dictionary analysis and compilation.  
	We hope that the following announcement, which touches on
projects having to do with language studies and Slavic studies, will
be of interest to this newsgroup.  We draw your attention in
particular to the upcoming "Linguistics and Synergetics" Colloquium
mentioned here, which will take place in Moscow in September 1992.
	We ask that anyone interested in responding to particular
points in the YAZYKO-ZNANIE announcement please respond over
electronic mail to PSY-PUB, as well as to the respective directors
of LCHC and VEGA, Dr. Michael Cole and Dr. Alexandra Belyaeva.
Their addresses are as follows:

psy-pub@comlab.vega.msk.su
mcole@weber.ucsd.edu
abelyaeva@home.vega.msk.su


	We thank you very much for your attention.

	Sincerely,
	Larry Bogoslaw, LCHC


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            G U M A N I T A R N O Y E    Z N A N I Y E
                Humanities Knowledge Association

                    Y A Z Y K O - Z N A N I Y E
               INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN
              L I N G U I S T I C   K N O W L E D G E

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Proyezd Karamzina, 9-1-122      Phone:   423.10.00                  
Moscow 117463 Russia            Fax:     939.08.77
                                        (for Polikarpov)
E-Mail: psy-pub@comlab.vega.msk.su (subject line: Polikarpov)
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                        Scope of activities


1. I N T R O D U C T I O N

   Since  1980  the Group of Theoretical and Applied Lexicology
(as a division of the Laboratory for Applied Linguistics of the
Moscow University ( Philological Faculty )), has been  involved
with   research   in   the   field  of  theoretical  study  and
computerized  processing  of  natural  language   data.   Since
November  1990  the  work has been continued on a greater 
scale within the framework of the YAZYKO-ZNANIYE 
International Center for Research in Linguistic Knowledge 
headed by  A.A.Polikarpov, a   member   organization   of   the   
'Gumanitarnoye  Znaniye' Humanitarian Knowledge Association 
which  was  set  up  by  the Moscow  University  and  other  
humanitarian  institutions  for cooperation in the above field. 
At  present  YAZYKO-ZNANIYE  is staffed  by  a  dozen  of  
qualified  employees - linguists and specialists  in  the  field  
of   programming   and   knowledge engineering.   Besides,   
when   addressing   various  problems YAZYKO-ZNANIYE  invites  
for  cooperation  and  integrates  the efforts  of non-staff 
linguists, mathematicians, psychologists, musicologists, and  
specialists  in  the  field  of  artificial intelligence   from  
several  other  educational  and  research institutions of 
Russia and other neighboring republics (Faculty of  Computa-
tional  Mathematics  and  Cybernetics  of the Moscow 
University,  Institute  of  the  Russian  Language  of  Russian
Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics of the Academy 
of Sciences  of  the  Ukraine,  Tartu  University,  Tbilisi  State
Conservatoire, etc).
     Structural units of YAZYKO-ZNANIYE include 2  laboratories
(Computer   Linguistics  Laboratory  and  Systemic  Linguistics
Laboratory) and several problem groups.
     YAZYKO-ZNANIYE and researchers cooperating  with  it  take
part  in  the activity of the Intercollege Problem Group called
"Text as an Object of  Interdisciplinary  Investigations".  The
publishing  organ  of  the  Problem  Group is the "Quantitative
Linguistics and  Automatic  Text  Analysis"  year-book  (Tartu,
Tartu University Press, 1985-1992) (See Suppl. for KLAAT).
     The  head  of  the  Inter-College  Problem  Group  and   the
editor-in-chief of 'Quantitative Linguistics and Automatic 
Text Analysis'  is  Professor  J.A.Tuldava  (Tartu  University).  
At present the Group is preparing to hold International 
Colloquium on "Linguistics and Synergetics" which is to focus 
on  systemic aspects of human language organization (Moscow, 
Sept.'92).
     The Problem Group held several Conferences  and  Seminars,
e.g.  [KASOT-1986;  PLAAT-1988; APKL-1990; EVKMI-1991]. 
Reviews of some of  them  see  in  [Boroda,  Dolinskiy,  1986;  
Boroda, Polikarpov, 1988b;  Polikarpov,  Tuldava,  1990a;   
Polikarpov, Tuldava, 1990b].
     The Problem Group actively cooperates with the "Linguistic
Synergetics" research  group  of the Ruhr University in Bochum,
Germany, headed by Prof.Gabriel Altmann.  As a main  result  of
the cooperation,  a  collection  of  papers of Soviet linguists
called "Quantitative Linguistics in the USSR" (Eds. M.G.Boroda,
A.A.Polikarpov, J.A.Tuldava)  has  been prepared for print as a
separate issue of the "Quantitative Linguistics"  series.  (See
also, [Boroda, Polikarpov, 1988a; Tuldava, 1990]).
     Apart   from   that,   the  "Musicometrica"  series,  also
published at the  Ruhr  University  is  edited  by  the  Soviet
musicologist,  a member of the Inter-College Problem Group, 
Dr. M.G.Boroda, at  present  a  visiting  researcher  at  the  Ruhr
University.
     YAZYKO-ZNANIYE took  an  active  part  in  organizing  and
holding   the   All-Union  Scientific  Conference  on  "Current
Problems of Computer Linguistics" (Tartu, May 1990, Co-
chairmen of the Organizing Committee J.A.  Tuldava  and  
A.A.Polikarpov) [APKL-90].  Members of YAZYKO-ZNANIYE 
presented several reports at the Conference (see  APKL-90  
presentations  listed  in  the Supplement to this letter).
     A.A.Polikarpov  and  L.I.Kolodyazhnaya, members of YAZYKO-
ZNANIYE submitted a report on "A  System  for  Compilation  
and Analysis  of  Automatic Philological Dictionaries Using 
PCs" at the Second International Congress on "Terminology and 
Knowledge Engineering - Applications" (TKE'90)  (section  on  
"Electronic Dictionaries")   held   in   October  1990  in  Trier,  
Germany [Kolodyazhnaya, Polikarpov, 1990b].
     Yu.K.Krylov and A.A.Polikarpov, members of YAZYKO-
ZNANIYE, submitted  reports  to  the  First   Quantitative   
Linguistics Conference  (QUALICO) held by the University of 
Trier, Germany, and the German  Society  for  Linguistic  
Computing,  September 23-27,  1991) [Krylov, 1991c; 
Polikarpov, 1991]. A.A.Polikarpov attended the conference.
     YAZYKO-ZNANIYE  made  an  important  contribution  to  the
All-Union  Seminar  on  "Heuristic  Potential  of  Quantitative
Methods  in  Linguistic  Research"   (11-13   September   1991,
Smolensk)  (See,  e.g.,  [Kustova,  Polikarpov,  1991;  Kurlov,
Polikarpov, 1991]).


2.  C U R R E N T   L I N E   O F    A C T I V I T I E S

a)  FUNDAMENTAL  AND  APPLIED RESEARCH as a basis for 
producing science-intensive software in the  field  of  natural  
language data  processing  (mainly  using  Russian  and English 
language data):
  - construction of models of the  natural  language  evolution
    and communication process, including cognitive mechanisms
    and conditions for resolution  of  lexical,  morphemic  and
    syntactic   polysemanticity  and  sense  interpretation  of
    messages [Andreevskaya,Polikarpov, 1992; 
Boroda,Polikarpov,
    1988a; Boroda, Polikarpov,  1989;  Dolinskiy,  1988;  1990;
    Karimova,  1989; Karimova, Polikarpov, 1989; Krylov,1990b;
    Krylov,  Yakubovskaya,  1977;  Krylov,  Polikarpov,   1990;
    Kurlov,  Polikarpov,  1991;  1992;  Malov, 1988; Mel'nikov,
    1978; 1988; Polikarpov, 1979; 1987;  1988a;  1988b; 1988c;
    1989a;  1990;  1991;  1992;  Polikarpov,  Bushuyeva, 1988a,
    1988b; Polikarpov, Karimova,  1988;  Polikarpov,  Kryukova,
    1989;   Polikarpov,   Saprykin   P.M.,  Silnitskaya,  1990;
    Polikarpov,  Tuldava,   1989;   1990a;   Tuldava,   Boroda,
    Polikarpov,    1988;   Zlatoustova,   Korolyov.,   Marchuk,
    Polikarpov, 1989].

  - theoretical  analysis  of  some  fundamental  problems   of
    systemic  organization  of  natural language vocabulary and
    particularities  of  its  representation  in  philological,
    special   and   electronic   dictionaries   [Kolodyazhnaya,
    Polikarpov, 1990a; 1990b; 1992; Kolodyazhnaya,  Polikarpov,
    Shumarina,  1990;  Kurlov,  Polikarpov,  1992; Malov, 1988;
    Obukhova  ,  1986;  Polikarpov,  1987;  Polikarpov,  1988b;
    1989a;   Polikarpov,   Bushuyeva,   1985;   1988a;   1988b;
    Polikarpov, Kryukova, 1989; Safronova, 1986];

  - research  and  development  of  algorithms and software for
    automatic morphological,  syntactic  and  lexico-semantical
    analysis  of  texts in Russian and English [Akhmedzhanov et
    al.,  1989;  Gryaznukhina et  al.,  1990;  Karimova,  1989;
    Karimova, Polikarpov,     1989;    1990a;    Kolodyazhnaya,
    Polikarpov, Shumarina,   1990;   Maksimenko,    Polikarpov,
    Troynova, 1988; Polikarpov, 1989a];

  - comparative analysis of Russian,  English,  French,  German
    and  other  languages  at all levels of their organization;
    construction of the  model  of  the  bilingual  individual,
    investigation  of regularities of interference in speech in
    a foreign  language,  development  of  typology  of  errors
    [Krauklis, Kukushkina, Polikarpov, 1990];

  - construction of the model of interlanguage idiomaticity  in
    machine  translation  from  English  into  Russian and from
    Russian into English;

b) DEVELOPMENT OF APPLIED  SYSTEMS (text editors, linguistic
(text) processors,  dictionary processors and so on) [Anisimov,
Surkis,   Yablonskiy,   1990;   Belyayev,   Kazakov,    Surkis,
Yablonskiy,  1990;  Danilchenko,  Moskalenko, Polikarpov, 1990;
Yablonskiy,  1990;  Kazakov,  Yablonskiy,  1990; Kolodyazhnaya,
1987;   Kolodyazhnaya,   Polikarpov,  1990a;  1990b;  Korolyov,
Polikarpov,  Shershova, 1990; Krauklis, Kukushkina, Polikarpov,
1990; Polikarpov, Sherhova, 1989];


c) PRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS OF TEXTUAL AND DICTIONARY 
	DATA BASES
[Kolodyazhnaya, Polikarpov, 1990a; 1990b; Korolyov, 
Polikarpov, Shershova,   1990;   Krylov,   Polikarpov,   1990;  
Polikarpov, Saprykin, Silnitskaya, 1990].


3. M A I N     A P P L I C A T I O N      R E S U L T S
A C H I E V E D   BY   Y A Z Y K O - Z N A N I Y E    SO   FAR



a) A  DICTIONARY   PROCESSOR,   i.e.   Automated   system   for
preparation,  keeping  and  analysis  of  dictionaries has been
developed  and   is   operated   in   the   experimental   mode
[Danilchenko,   Moskalenko,  Polikarpov,  1990;  Kolodyazhnaya,
1987; Kolodyazhnaya, Polikarpov,1990a; 1990b; Kolodyazhnaya,
Polikarpov, Shumarina, 1990];

b) An ELECTRONIC VERSION OF WNDS - "Webster's New 
Dictionary of Synonyms" - has  been  produced,  linguistic  
analysis  of  its parameters  is  being  carried  out 
[Kolodyazhnaya, Polikarpov, 1990a; 1990b; 1992; 
Kolodyazhnaya, Polikarpov, Khotko, 1986];

c) The first version of  the  ELECTRONIC  MULTI-ASPECT  
RUSSIAN DICTIONARY  comprising  1000  entries  for  operation  
within a linguistic text processor as well as a system for  
maintaining and checking it   have   been  produced  [Korolyov,  
Polikarpov, Shershova, 1990];

d)  The  LES  TEXT EDITOR has been implemented as a carrier 
for various applied systems.

e) An AUTOMATED RESEARCH SYSTEM  for  multi-aspect  
statistical analysis  of  lexical  units  has  been  developed and 
is being operated  [Krylov,  Polikarpov,  1990;  Polikarpov,   
Saprykin, Silnitskaya, 1990].

f)  A COMPUTER  TECHNOLOGY  FOR  MODELING  AND PROCESSING  
OF PRINCIPAL SENSE CATEGORIES OF RUSSIAN LAW TEXTS along 
the lines of expert systems ideology.


4. C U R R E N T     P R O J E C T S

a)   Construction   of   theoretical   and  applied  models  of
regularities of natural language evolution and  text/vocabulary
organization

b)  Compilation of electronic  versions  of the following
dictionaries:
  - "Dictionary   of  Antonyms  of  the  Russian  Language";
  - "Dictionary  of  Russian Synonyms" (Ed.  by A.P.Yevgenyeva,
    Russian Language Publishers, Moscow, 1975);
and some other dictionaries (see the above list).

c)  Compilation  of   an   original   electronic   version   of
Russian-English dictionary of synonyms comprising around 
50,000 words  and  development of a control system to allow 
the use of the dictionary in various applications.

d) Preparatory work on the "Thesaurus of the Russian 
Language".

e)   Expansion  and  streamlining  of  the  above  multi-aspect
dictionary for the linguistic (text) processor.

f)  Further development of a linguistic processor for a natural
language interface with full-text data bases to be used  as  an
input   component   of  machine  translation  systems,  content
analysis and other intellectual information systems.

g) Preparatory work on an intellectual  publisher's  editor  of
Russian  texts for control of orthography, vocabulary, 
grammar, stylistics, punctuation and other text features.


5. P R O S P E C T I V E   D E V E L O P M E N T S

a) Development of evolutionary model of Human Language in 
Human History;

b) Research  on intellectual tools for Russian-English/English-
Russian translation;

c) Research  on  intellectual  tools  for  information  analyst
dealing with Russian texts;

d) Construction of an intellectual editor for Russian texts;

e)  Compilation and investigation of various corpora of Russian
and English texts;

f) Construction of a linguistically oriented  software  package
for statistical analysis of natural language texts;

g)  Construction  of  teaching  linguistic  systems  (based  on
original data bases of Russian and English texts;

h) Construction  of  a  computerized  system  for  preparation,
control and publishing of electronic dictionaries;

i) Compilation of various  dictionary  bases  (mainly  for  the
Russian and English languages);

j)   Setting   up   a  dictionary  publishing  house  (original
dictionaries and  electronic  versions  of  formerly  published
dictionaries in the book form - mono- and multilingual, general
and specialized);

k)  Setting  up  an  information/consulting  service on Russian
developments in the field of computer linguistics.

l) Setting up a scientific periodical on computer linguistics.


YAZYKO-ZNANIYE
Director
Prof. A.A.Polikarpov





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