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Russians in France. Impressions of the student internship.

May internships of FIAR students at the Center are becoming a good tradition applied linguistics University of Franche-Comte in Besançon (France). For the first two weeks of the month, our students are joining a multinational internship of more than three thousand people annually.

One of oldest centers teaching foreign languages ​​teaches not only French as a foreign language, but also a dozen other languages. At the Center, teachers of higher and high school, on its basis various scientific researches are carried out. By order of the ministries of foreign affairs, embassies, ministries of education and other educational and cultural institutions, the specialists of the Center go on business trips and carry out their work in the field. A little over a year ago, on March 28, 2007, a ministerial commission consisting of representatives of the Ministry of National Education, the Ministry of Culture and Communication, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded the Center for Applied Linguistics a special quality mark (label FLE) - highest mark in five categories - for achievements in the field of teaching French as a foreign language.

This year our partner is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Celebrates on a grand scale, bringing together the staff of the Center; trainees; partners, including the administration of the city, department, region, the television channel TV 5, the magazine " French in the world". As one of the slogans says "... languages ​​bind and unite People, Cultures, Countries, Projects, Hopes ... This is the idea that will become our red thread." All forms of expression are welcome at the festivities - speech, writing, poetry, graphics, sound, video. Our group had the opportunity to attend one of the events opening the jubilee marathon: the vernissage of works by lyceum students dedicated to the Center for Applied Linguistics.

This stay was rich in holidays and weekends, but those days were by no means lost. Trips to Paris, Lyon, Dijon, Bon; participation in the annual international festival university music bands in Belfort; a visit to the medieval castle of Zhu, a boat trip to the waterfall on the river Du with a hearty lunch of local dishes in a village restaurant: cheese fondue from several varieties of Conte, various smoked meats - the pride of the region, unique yellow wine and delicious homemade cake. Hervé Lesch, head of department extracurricular activities, offered a bright and rich program. The sights of Besançon were not deprived of attention: its museums, fortress, streets, houses, fountains. Thanks to our guide - teacher of the Center F. Ouabyanu - we saw the city from the inside.

Everyday life turned out to be no less intense: 40 hours of fruitful work under the guidance of the professionals of the Center for Applied Linguistics Nicole Poirier and Jean-Louis Cordonier using multimedia, audio and video supports, texts of various genres, and most importantly - in an authentic language environment. The meeting with a representative of the city administration, an employee of the department for tourism, culture and sports S. Dufatre was informative.

Curator support group A-M... Stimfling, M. Lakaya and Zh-P Besha are especially valuable. Indeed, thanks to their work, the program of our students' stay was perfectly organized, we were surrounded by a wonderful atmosphere, and the impressions were the most pleasant.

Group escort O. Kryukova

Aliyeva Aysel

At the end of winter, we were offered an internship in Besançon. After some deliberation, everyone agreed. So, on the first of May, we flew to Paris, from where we then went to the capital of the Franche-Comte region.

The first thing that struck me about Besançon was its extraordinary nature. Flowers, trees, birds are what the city can be proud of. It was the bright rays of the sun and the singing of birds that served as my alarm clock in the morning. Also worth noting is the fact that we were very lucky with the weather. For 14 days in France, it rained only once. By the way, it was on this rainy day that we went on an excursion to the waterfalls by river tram. The entire population of Besançon is very friendly. Everyone has a smile on their faces, everyone is ready to help if necessary.

As for our educational process then it was very well organized. First of all, the desires of the students themselves were taken into account. Thus, the training program was aimed at developing oral speech, presentation of the read texts / articles. It was immediately evident that the university teachers strove to make the classes as interesting and useful as possible. In addition to studying, we visited the castle (Château de Joux), a music festival in Belfort, went to Dijon and Beaune. So the cognitive part of our program was also rich. On the last day of study, we were invited to the department of culture and sports of the city administration, where they told us in detail about different aspects of the city's development: administrative structure, economy, transport, culture, tourism, sports ...

This is how we spent our internship in Besançon, one of the nicest cities in France. There was a lot of interesting things, but it is impossible to describe everything on paper. But I can say for sure that each of us has vivid memories of Besançon. We will all remember our practice with great pleasure, and the camera will help us with this.
Dina Svirtsova

I have only positive impressions of the trip.

Firstly, we were able to communicate in French at an everyday level, which would have been impossible to do during classes at the university. Therefore, the trip was very useful in terms of language practice, and thanks to it, it became much easier for me to speak French.

Secondly, we have visited many interesting places such as Dijon - extraordinary beautiful city with many attractions, and where there is so much greenery ...
I also remember a trip to the Chateau de Joux - a real medieval castle with thick walls, a huge spiral staircase and a cold dungeon.

We then went to a restaurant where we tasted the region's specialties: fondue, cold meats and, of course, yellow wine.

I was deeply impressed by the walk along the Doubs River, literally a hundred meters from Switzerland ...

As for Besançon itself, it is a very cute and beautiful town where you can endlessly walk, admire the views and sights ...

In general, the trip left many good impressions and positive emotions.
Kuznetsova Marina

Having learned that we had the opportunity to go to practice in France, our group lived only with dreams and hopes. In February, the idea that a trip awaits us in May seemed somehow unrealistic and distant, but dreams come true and voilà we are already in Besançon. The first impression about this city: “God, what kind of nature is there, what trees, flowers. Everything is flowering!". From the very first day, despite the fatigue, I wanted to go for a walk. In my opinion, it is impossible to describe the feelings that we have experienced all these two weeks. Endless delight and desire to forget that you are a foreigner and a tourist, merge with the crowd of townspeople and feel like a part of the city; try to behave like a French student: buy bus and train tickets, go to bakeries and enjoy the smell of freshly baked bread, be polite to the people around you.

The days flew by at the speed of light. And now, it's time for us to pack our bags and leave for Russia. Ambivalent feeling: Of course, we all missed our loved ones, but still, I'm sure that each of us would have stayed here. I don’t want to leave a place where the only problem is the lack of time to see and visit everything, because in Moscow we will have everyday problems and a summer session. Besançon is a very calm and quiet city, here I felt like a resort, especially in the early morning when the sun was shining on the streets and trees.

But still we were in practice, so we had to not only rest and have fun, but also seriously study. Our teachers were very attentive, they were always ready to help us, we could feel their interest in teaching us something new. In addition, our vocabulary since often we were in enough difficult situations, it was very difficult to find a way out of which without knowing some concepts, but we always managed!

It is very nice! You get unreal pleasure when you say something in French and you see that people understand you. Immediately there is a desire to speak French with everyone.

In conclusion, I want to say that the practice in Besançon helped me to learn many new expressions, to feel involved in Everyday life cities, overcome shyness in ourselves and start communicating and, of course, all of us, upon arrival in Moscow, will show our parents and friends photographs and talk about our trip. A lot of memories that I really don't want to forget!

Hopefully next year we will have another opportunity to visit France. And now, in Moscow, we should diligently study and improve our knowledge.

I want to say a huge thank you to those who made our dreams come true and organized this wonderful two-week trip to one of the most, in my opinion, beautiful and cozy cities in France, namely, the city of Besançon.
Kryukova Nina

For me, this is my first trip to France - the fulfillment of a childhood dream, a dream come true at last.

Ancient bridge cities, the sun in the spray of fountains, of which there are a lot in Besançon, tiled roofs of houses, green hills, an old (and eternal, as they say in booklets) citadel, built by the Great Vauban and keeping the memory of past centuries and wars - all this is so beautiful what seems like a dream. You walk around the city and think that you will wake up now, because there cannot be such beauty and such magic in the world. It turns out that it can.

In this city, the brothers Lumiere and Charles Nadier were born on the same square in the same house, and Victor Hugo was born in the house opposite. Above this square rises to the citadel itself, and the sun plays with reflections on the multicolored roof of the cathedral. Here history is intertwined with modernity, and it seems that Besançon has a special relationship with eternity, because the Museum of Time is located there.

In addition to the lessons at the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA), during which time flew by, we could travel around France, which, in fact, did during the many May holidays. We were in Dijon, Lyon, Belfort, and about each of these cities one can write volumes of three enthusiastic impressions.
Ancient Dijon with narrow medieval streets, with the spiers of Gothic cathedrals rising to the sky, with multi-colored roofs of houses that still remember the knights and the Duchy of Burgundy, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Bourgogne, which houses the statue of the Virgin Mary, created in the 11th century, Philippe Tower Kind, with which you can see, as if in the palm of your hand, the whole city ... Oh, you can talk about Dijon endlessly.

Lyon, a city of contrasts on two rivers.

Belfort, home to an annual music festival that brings everyone together, regardless of age or mother tongue.

The medieval castle of Joux, where Mirabeau freely lived in friendship with the owner of the castle and in love with his wife, where Toussaint Louverture died, where each stone has its own history, its own legends.

You cannot tell about everything, you cannot list everything. But infinitely beautiful France, amazing teachers, in whose lessons an hour flies by like a minute, an expressive lecture by the Algerian writer A. Dzhemay about the work of Camus - we will never forget about the two weeks spent here.

I’ll go to pack my bags and dream of returning to Besançon more than once.
Shpilenok Evgeniya

Besancon is a small hospitable town in the east of France. This was not my first trip to Besançon, but, nevertheless, this city opened up for me from a new side.

In Besançon, unspoiled nature and urban landscape are surprisingly harmoniously combined: residents of the city walk along the embankment of the Doubs on weekends, and lead an urban lifestyle on weekdays.

The authorities of Besançon and its inhabitants are very responsible in their defense. environment... So, as for public transport Most buses run on natural gas (Pour le bien-être de tous, cet autobus roule en gaz naturel).

During our stay in France, we visited not only Besancon, but also Dijon, which is an hour's drive from it. We also had a wonderful day at the Château de Joux. After a tour of the castle, we enjoyed fondue, and then on a pleasure boat went to the Le Saut du Doubs waterfall, which is located on the border with Switzerland. So, we can say that, without making any special efforts, we also visited Switzerland.

Finally, we attended a student music festival in the small town of Belfort. Many talented bands of different musical styles and trends were presented there.

As for the classes at the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA), it should be noted the professionalism of the teachers, their willingness to explain incomprehensible things and give new knowledge. We analyzed poems, watched and analyzed the film, listened and held debates.

On this trip, we got to know each other better, and also met new interesting people with whom we will probably want to communicate further.

France greeted us with splendid weather. We enjoyed the warmth and sun, sunbathed, walked and breathed the clean air of Besançon.

The only thing that bothers me in France is the complete refusal of shops and other establishments that provide services to work on Sundays and holidays... This was especially noticeable for us because there were a lot of them during our stay.

In general, I think that our trip was a success, especially since it was most likely the last one in my student life.
Kashitsyn Igor

The suitcases have already been packed, the documents have not been forgotten, and the miracle of French technology - the TGV with great speed rushes us from the hospitable and almost our own Besançon to huge Paris. Two weeks in France flew by with the same lightning speed as that very high-speed train - Train à grande vitesse. It is difficult to systematize all the impressions, but some of them are the brightest.

The first thing that catches your eye is catch phrase“Greece has everything” in the 21st century, you can safely change the name of the country to France. Everywhere it is felt that France, with all its cosmopolitanism, sacredly honors its own traditions and isolation. Locals drive comfortable French cars, they are deservedly proud of French food, which is really of the highest quality, and are ready to admire their language and their nature all day long.

Besançon himself turned out to be almost as I imagined him, but that does not mean that I did not like him.

On the contrary, the city has preserved the spirit of Medieval France - with its churches, cobbled streets, small courtyards in which the French spend their evenings with a glass of wine.

Besançon for me is names and titles: the Lumiere brothers, Hugo, "Red and Black" (written by Stendhal, not Hugo, as I once thought). Krasnoe is the majestic citadel of Vauban, which offers an extraordinary view of the Doubs valley, numerous bastions, bridges that were raised in case of war and made the city almost impregnable. Even the name of one of the city's quarters - Battant indirectly speaks of the great past of the city. Black is the cassock of a Catholic priest. If you remember, Julien Sorel intended to enter the seminary in Besançon. This is a stunning cathedral, the Church of St. Madeleine, the foot of which has become a meeting and dining place for Besançon students.

Besançon is unusually conveniently located, and developed communication routes allowed me in a fairly short time to see not only the city itself with its environs, but also to visit Burgundy and its very beautiful capital Dijon, the dream city of Lyon, whose entire center is part of the world heritage, and even go to Switzerland for 5 minutes after the excursion to the Jura mountains.

The people of the east of France turned out to be unexpectedly open and hospitable for me, which went well with their innate intelligence and impeccable knowledge of etiquette. I would like to sincerely thank the host, the entire Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA) and especially our teachers. Many thanks to everyone!

P.S. Special thanks to the department and faculty and a small wish: can we go west now ?! =) In Bordeaux, Nantes or Toulouse =)
Budulchieva Natalia

Besançon has become such a city for me in which you forget about the existence of Moscow and Paris - megalopolises that overwhelm a person with their gigantic size and a sky, distant and unreal. Someone will say that everything that happened to us in Besançon was a dream or a fairy tale, but this city seemed to me much more real than any other, because the water in it is really water, and the stars are close and bright.

Almost half of the days spent in France turned out to be holidays. Thanks to this circumstance, we had more time to wander around Besançon ourselves, to travel to neighboring cities. The latter fascinated me the most: just one or two hours away by high-speed train, and you are in Dijon, or Lyon, or Belfort. Anywhere! France is indeed a small country, but always amazingly different. It was funny to go one day to the Chateau de Joux, a real medieval castle-fortress, and the next day to be in Belfort for the university music festival.

Classes at the Center for Applied Linguistics became a discovery for me. It was really fascinating: studying the texts of modern songs, films, reading poets popular in France. It was interesting, finally, just to talk with the teachers, to find out where the best pastry shops are located in Besançon, or, for example, where and how the local youth like to relax.
Yana Shcherbina
For me, this is my first acquaintance with Besançon and with France. The acquaintance is very long-awaited and pleasant. The first thing that you notice in Besançon is the absence of traffic jams, so typical for Moscow. And there are few cars in Besançon - the locals prefer bicycles - the benefits for both health and the environment. No cars - no noise, and the air is noticeably cleaner. There are many trees and flowers in the city, a large number of fountains.

The French know how to keep their history, so the houses of the 18th and 19th centuries are in excellent condition and suitable for living, but modern buildings in this city are rare.

It is impossible not to say about the inhabitants of the city. In my opinion, these are the most polite, kindest people. For all the time I spent in Besançon, I did not notice that someone made a scandal or just raised their voice. I am surprised by the sweet habit of the French to greet everyone: both acquaintances and strangers.

In general, Besançon is worth seeing with your own eyes, and I hope that I will return there more than once.
Kirdyashev Ivan

There is no feeling that we are in another country. It's just that people speak a different, almost native, language. The meaning of what is happening is still not clear, but it seems that we are already in France.

... A few hours later. District Gare de Lyon. Place de la Bastille.

Paris at night turned out to be dirty, a little marginal, dangerous, but at the same time a friendly and green city. Having been kicked out of the station along with our suitcases, in the cold night we tried to find a warm hearth and a comfortable chair. As a result, we settled down on the veranda of a cafe with a quite formidable name "Bastilia". The poor waiter who served us simply did not know what to do at half past three in the morning with twelve frozen and hungry Russians. That night we felt like real travelers ...

5 hours later, we settled into a rather comfortable chair (and most importantly, warmth!) In the TGV and set off to our destination.

A fragrant French province. A little "à côté", as the locals say, but without losing its merits, namely:

1. The city is clean and green. “Besançon est une ville propre” - local ballot boxes declare.
2. The courtesy of the French is amazing! I'm smitten!
3. 6 hours of language a day. You can go crazy! From happiness. I go through catharsis every night.

Leshchenko, Russian anthem and a company of 10 people in a cramped room. Seventeen "hurray!" and the very next morning the whole hostel knows about us. In short, this is a special story about intercultural communication.

In the town of Belfort in the north of the region, there was a music festival, to which we went. On the way, we met the Peugeot factories in Montbeillard. An unforgettable spectacle of the power of French industry. Belfort, unfortunately, turned out to be not "linen", but "sal". Apparently, a few days of the festival and the presence of a significant number of people (and even more so young people!) Can ruin any place.

However, the performances of the groups different countries, musicians of various qualifications - from students of the Prague Conservatory to a wandering student orchestra from Portugal created a special, hardly forgettable flavor of the action.

Truly, this is where most are exposed centrifugal forces mother Europe. She is so different, but still the same!

The last lesson with your favorite teacher. A symbolic exchange of gifts and the reading of a poem, which puts the final, slightly sad chord of our study. Lyrically. Sad. Goodbye Besançon.

Sans doute je reviens. J'espère donc je suis.

Early train and day in Paris. Miraculously managed to get into Notre Dame de Paris. There - crowds of half-dressed tourists with an absent look illuminate the stained-glass windows with the flashes of their "soap dishes". This place evokes both hostility and reverent adoration at the same time.

Acquaintance with the Parisian metro was unsuccessful - I had to trick through the turnstile. That's it, Russo Turisto! Then we went to the same de Gaulle airport, which I now consider to be the best ever seen.

Merci à toi, chère République Française.

FIN
Pyltsina Maria

Besançon impresses at first glance with its high roofs and narrow cobbled streets. Captivates with its comfort and serenity. The first time I visited Besançon two years ago, and even then the city sunk into my soul. It seems nothing special, but there is something that made me return to the capital of Franche-Comté again. After the first trip, I read Stendhal's book "Red and Black", in which part of the action takes place in Besançon. And therefore, during the second visit, I was very interested in Julien Sorel's Besançon. During a city tour with Monsieur Ouabian, we visited the seminary that Julien intended to attend.

The weather was very pleasant. It is pleasant to remember the numerous picnics on the grass in the shade of plane trees and the fortress wall right at the very water of the calm Du.
Classes at the CLA Center for Applied Linguistics were amazingly diverse every time. We managed to get acquainted and analyze several poems by French authors, watch the film "Amelie", and even master the jargon language of modern French youth.

At the end of the trip, I was terribly reluctant to leave. But let's hope that this is not ours. last time in Besançon, and we will definitely visit this calm, cozy and captivating city and its kind, open and welcoming people again.

So, computational linguistics is a young, but very promising science. A main feature this science is that it is considered interdisciplinary, that is, it studies the problems at the junction of programming and linguistics. And in order to become a full-fledged specialist in this area, you need to be well versed in both mathematics and linguistics.

Training programs are divided into programs for philologists who want to connect their lives with linguistic developments in IT, and for mathematicians who want to work on text recognition systems, translation programs, etc. We will focus on the second option.

I want to make a reservation right away that there are only a few such master's degrees in Russia, and they are usually supervised by companies engaged in linguistic developments. Most of the computational linguistics programs are located in capitals.

I'll start with the master's degree, which seemed to me the most interesting. It is located in St. Petersburg, on the basis of St. Petersburg State University at the department information systems in art and humanities... I want to note right away that the department is located at Faculty of Humanities, but is designed specifically for programmers. The educational program is called "Engineering of Humanities". The target setting of the master's program is (I quote the site) “training of specialists capable of participating in research and project work in the field of intelligent information technologies with a specialization in the direction of language engineering, technologies for extracting humanitarian knowledge from a text stream, ontological engineering. "

To enter there, you need to pass a written test, in which there will be questions in mathematics, the basics of programming and (a little) in linguistics. Mathematicians should not be afraid of questions on the last discipline: judging by the list of references, two or three simple books entitled "Introduction to Linguistics" are quite enough to pass entrance tests... From my own sources I learned that he is in charge of this educational program Yandex company, although the site of the magistracy does not mention this.

The second master's program, which I would like to talk about, is located in Moscow at the Department of Image Recognition and Text Processing of the Faculty of Innovation and high tech(FIVT) at MIPT. It was founded in 2006 by ABBYY. Judging by the description, of the several master's programs offered by this department, the areas of "Intelligent Systems" and "Machine Learning Methods" are most related to computational linguistics. To get there to study, you need not only to pass an entrance exam, but also to pass an interview with ABBYY employees. Still, ABBYY expects that later graduates will go to work for them.

And the last master's program, which I will tell you about, is called "Computational Linguistics" and is located at the Faculty of Philology of the Higher School of Economics. As follows from the information I have obtained, it is available in Moscow and in the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the HSE. University representatives believe that this program is suitable not only for mathematicians, but also for graduates with other basic education... Training involves both programming courses designed to improve graduates of humanitarian specialties, and a course in general linguistics, designed for mathematicians.

To enroll in this master's program, you need to pass an exam in foreign language and draw up a portfolio, which should contain a motivation letter and information about the future student. You will need to talk about your professional interests, publications, practices that you have taken, etc. The teachers will be the staff of the Faculty of Philology, the university-wide department higher mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Basic Department of Yandex.

In general, graduates who decide to study computational linguistics have a choice. So far it is not large, but I think there will be many more such programs in the future.

I think this is the end of my review.
For help in preparing the article, I thank Yandex and Google, the official website of ABBYY, as well as the websites of universities, which were discussed in the post.

Head of the UC

general information

UC computational linguistics was opened at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State University for the Humanities in 2011 with the participation of ABBYY and the support of Russian branch IBM. The UC prepares professional linguists who are able to work effectively in the development of innovative language computer technologies. Since 2012, the UC will train undergraduates in the Computer Linguistics program of the Fundamental and Applied Linguistics program.

Computational linguistics is relatively new area scientific and engineering activities. The relevance of the creation of this master's program is determined by the fact that in the last 10-15 years there has been a rapid development of this area, associated with the ever-growing influence of the Internet and the emergence of a huge number of new technical devices, the most important part of which are natural language interfaces. Besides, in modern linguistics there is a rapid transition from traditional methods of obtaining linguistic data to corpus methods that require serious development of computer technology.

The obvious, growing from year to year, need for specialists capable of participating in the development of appropriate technologies is not yet supported, unfortunately, by the availability of adequate educational standard in system Russian education... The proposed program is one of the first attempts to determine exactly which specialists are required by the industry.

The field of activity associated with solving problems of automatic processing of Natural Language (NL) and called "Computational Linguistics" requires the training of specialists in two fundamentally different areas: linguists and engineers. These directions are based on two completely different education systems:

• "Computational Linguistics for Engineers" is part of the so-called. Computer Science. Within the framework of this direction, engineers are trained who are able to effectively solve the problems of automatic processing of NL, relying on the existing linguistic resources and models necessary for a specific task. The UC promotes the emergence of such specialists, interaction with technical universities. In particular, with the participation of the UC of Computational Linguistics of the Russian State University for the Humanities, a "parallel" master's program in computational linguistics is being created for engineers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

• "Computational linguistics for linguists" is a section of theoretical and applied linguistics. Within the framework of this direction, linguists are trained who are able to solve the problems of creating formal language models and linguistic resources based on them that have the necessary properties for their use in problems of automatic processing of NL. It is this direction that is being implemented by the master's program "Fundamental and Computational Linguistics", created by the UC.

The most important circumstance is that specialists trained in these two directions are necessary participants in any serious projects in the field of automatic processing of NL. Although they perform significantly different functions, the ability to effectively interact with each other is a key factor in the success of such projects. The foundations of such interaction are laid in the programs due to the serious engineering and mathematical training of linguists (and the corresponding linguistic training of engineers).

Thus, the preparation of masters in computational linguistics in this program is based on an in-depth study of the fundamental foundations of linguistics with an emphasis on methods for creating operational formal models. language system adequate to the complexity of such processing tasks natural language, like speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, semantic analysis and text understanding, smart search.

The specificity of the UC is reflected in the following sections:

1. Formal models of the language (with an emphasis on the prospects of applied use);

2. Instrumental direction: specialized languages ​​and packages for linguists (such as NLTK, R, etc.), available resources (from grammars and parsers to ontologies);

3. Applied direction(some important tasks of NLP, how they are solved, how linguistics is used);

4. Mathematical and engineering training. Statistics, formal grammars, understanding of machine learning methods.

Undergraduates of the direction "Computational Linguistics" UC teaches the following courses:

• Mathematical foundations of computational linguistics. Survey course of basic mathematical methods used in computational linguistics: mathematical logic; probability theory and statistics; formal grammars; theory of algorithms, in particular - the concept of the complexity of an algorithm; machine learning;
• Programming linguistic tasks (NLTK and R). The objective of the course is to teach students to work with available interpreters based on the Python language. A short introduction to programming techniques in general;
• General and computer lexicography (according to the Lexicom program). The course introduces students to the principles of modern systemic lexicography; with new methods of lexicographic work, including corpus methods. Modern computer systems for creating dictionaries are considered, new trends in lexicography are analyzed (wiki projects, expert methods for assessing filiation, etc.);
• Models and methods of automatic text processing (NLP / AOT). An overview course, consisting of two parts (matrix, with different lecturers): basic linguistic models + basic tasks to be solved. The course is methodically linked to the course "Mathematical Foundations of Linguistic Research". The first part of the course is of a summary nature and is based on the systemic knowledge of the language acquired by the masters in the course of studying at the bachelor's degree in linguistic specialties (this knowledge is necessary for passing entrance exam);
• Linguistic and Ontological Models. An ideologically very important course that bridges the gap between linguistic and extralinguistic models. The course examines the interface between lexical-semantic and ontological descriptions (in particular, the project of Igor Boguslavsky). Analyzed modern linguo-ontological resources (* net), modern projects of "mapping" between them (Martha Palmer and K);
• Corpus linguistics. The problems of creating and evaluating corpuses are considered. Internet as a body. Methods for automatic corpus creation. Analysis of methods of using corpora in linguistic research (assessment of the significance of the obtained statistical results).
• Linguistic annotation and markup. Markup languages ​​and techniques starting with XML. Ideologically close to Howie's course;
• Machine translate;
• Methods for evaluating NLP applications;
• Formal models and resources of the main world languages ​​(non-Indo-European);
• Information search;
• Question-answer systems (IBM special course);
• Specialized linguistic databases.

Students of the Institute of Linguistics (specialty, bachelor's, master's) UC teaches the following courses:

• Introduction to Computational Linguistics;
• Computational linguistics. Main tasks and technologies;
• Modern methods sociolinguistics;
• Automatic translation
• Linguistic Foundations of Machine Translation;
• Fundamentals of Informatics;
• The main directions of linguistic support of new information technologies (computer analysis of texts);
• Informatics and information Technology in linguistics;
• Automatic natural language processing;
• Automatic text processing, Automatic generation of text-descriptions of images;
• Computer support for translation activities;
• Corpus linguistics.

Students undergo practical training at ABBYY.

See also the UC Computational Linguistics page on the ABBYY website.

List of employees of the UC of Computational Linguistics

Vladimir Pavlovich Selegey - Director of Linguistic Research at ABBYY, Head of the UC of Computational Linguistics
"Introduction to Computational Linguistics"

« The opening of a department at MIPT allows us not only to help „ to their“ students.

Our goal is to make the best Computer Science teaching in Russia at FIVT. "
Svetlana Luzgina, corporate communications service.

Head of the Department: Vladimir Pavlovich Selegey, Director of Linguistic Research, ABBYY

The Department of Computational Linguistics of the FIWT was founded in 2011 by the Russian company ABBYY, one of the leading software developers in the field of artificial intelligence, in particular, document recognition and natural language processing. The department trains specialists who are able to work effectively in the development of innovative language computer technologies, in particular, the technology of syntactic and semantic text analysis ABBYY Compreno.

In the last decade, computational linguistics has been actively developing all over the world. This is due to the growing influence of the Internet and the emergence of a large number new technical devices with natural language interfaces. Technologies such as multilingual information retrieval, machine translation, knowledge extraction, speech recognition, and others are developing especially rapidly. In Russia, so far, insufficient attention has been paid to computational linguistics in the education system. Because of this, in the world scientific research in computational linguistics, the Russian language is underrepresented.

The specialization "Computational Linguistics" at MIPT is based on a deep technical education, which is given by Phystech. Classes at the base department are held in the ABBYY office, where the company's employees teach courses in automatic language processing, general and computer lexicography, corpus linguistics, as well as the integral disciplines of Computer Science in the field of software development.

One of the tasks of the department is to actively involve students in scientific life... It is important not only to know about the modern world "trends" in computational linguistics, but also to be a part of the global process. Department students accept Active participation in the development of ABBYY Compreno technology and jointly with the Russian State Humanitarian University research project on the creation of the General Internet Corpus of the Russian Language (GIKRYA) based on the resources of the Russian-language Internet.

Enrollment in the department is carried out according to the results of the competition both for the bachelor's degree and for the first year of the master's degree. Bachelors from all faculties of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, as well as other higher educational institutions... Enrollment is made based on the results of solving logical and algorithmic problems and interviews with the leadership of the department.

If you want to have an interview at the department or ask a question, write to [email protected]... See you at ABBYY!