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Now you can learn information on Traffic Rules by asking our bot. It can also ask you qualifying questions, if necessary. Only russian language is available. Bot's ICQ-number: | |
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Report is published on the implementation of R&D work on the subject "Development of a pilot version of the system for Russian language syntactic analysis", 2008, inventory nubmer VNTIC 02200803750, head of the works: Ph.D. Okatiev V.V. You may read the description here. | |
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Dictum Ltd.released DictaScope version 3. New functionality includes punctuation analysis and use of words' compatibility statistic from the Internet. Besides, DictaScope now identifies complex lexemes, such as dates, company names, person names etc. The demo-page is renewed. Now, if your test sentence contains punctuation, the result of parsing will be not only a tree but a puctuation analysis table also. You may read the description here. | |
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On the 6th of September the decision to grant a patent on “The Method of Information Search” was taken by ROSPATENT. A description shows the general principles that the system of citation extraction is based on. The patent will be obtained after the publication in the bulletin in the beginning of 2008. | |
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Dictum Ltd leased an additional office from Nizhegorodsky Innovation Business Incubator. Business Incubator provided an office fully equipped with furniture, computers and clerical aids. Dictum Ltd passed selection to conclude a treaty. The expert commission included representatives of Business-angels association “Start Investments”, venture funds “Marchmont Capital Partners” and “Quadriga Capital”. | |
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The team of Dictum Ltd was invited to meeting of Business-angels association “Start Investments” and presented project “System of Citation extraction” to investors. | |
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In connection with widening of collaboration the State University of Nizhni Novgorod (NNSU) has given an office for Dictum Ltd. in the Innovation Technology Centre (ITC) building. Moreover, since December 1, 2006, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences professor Alekseev V.E. and candidate of physical and mathematical sciences associate professor Talanov V.A. became participants of the project “Computer system of citation extraction from natural language text”, they are members of the chair of mathematical logic and higher algebra of the Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Department of NNSU. Prof. Alekseev and prof. Talanov are experts in development of high-performance algorithms of discrete structures analysis. See also news from October 7, 2003, October 22, 2003, July 26, 2004, November 25, 2004. | |
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| Small innovative enterprise Dictum® Ltd. is registered in accordance with the terms of program START 06. Enterprise is established in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) on the base of experimental linguistic laboratory. The goal of its establishment is implementation of the project of developing computer system of citation extraction from natural language text. Integral part of the project is development of multilingual syntactic parser of natural language, distributed under the trademark DictaScope®. | |
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 By results of the jury, taking place on March 20, 2006 in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, project Dictum® was declared as the winner of competition under the program START 06 on financing innovation projects from the federal budget of the Russian Federation. The program START is handled by the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises. | |
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| Demo version of citation extraction system Dictum® became available at the project webcite. Access to the system from mobile phones is organized at wap.dictum.ru. Demo version demonstraits potential of automatic citaion extraction from text in Russian by the example of current Russian Traffic Rules. Inquiry to the sustem formulated as a set of key words. The answer is the citation, which is part of a sentence and self-dependent statement simultaneously.
Compactness of extracted citations reduces intellectual expenditures on the analysis of the received information and alluws setting up access to text information with the help of a mobile device with the small display size, in particular cellular phone. | |
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| New capabilities of Russian version of parser DictaScope® are available: recovering of incomplete constructions. The syntax of Russian language permits omission of words when these are clear from context. The parser allows recovering pronouns and missing members in a number of cases typical for Russian language, including elliptic constructions. Example: Çåëåíûé ñèãíàë ñâåòîôîðà ðàçðåøàåò, à êðàñíûé çàïðåùàåò äâèæåíèå ïåøåõîäîâ. Recovered sentence: Çåëåíûé ñèãíàë ñâåòîôîðà ðàçðåøàåò [äâèæåíèå ïåøåõîäîâ], à êðàñíûé [ñèãíàë ñâåòîôîðà] çàïðåùàåò äâèæåíèå ïåøåõîäîâ. The recovered members of sentence are given in brackets. Comment: 1) There is a recovered direct object of a transitive verb "ðàçðåøàåò"; 2) There is a recovered missing noun "ñèãíàë" which was replaced by its attribute - the adjective "êðàñíûé". The library DictaScope® allows user to control recovering pronouns and missing words via the parameters. In the online-version the parameters of the following recoveries are set:
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| Online multilanguage version of natural language parser Dictascope® is now available on the site (Russian and English languages). | |
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| Representative of Dictum® Software Lab has taken part in international conference European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology (EWIMT), which took place in London, UK on November 25 to 6, 2004. employee of laboratory K.A. Barkalov has performed the report "Knowledge reproduction through telephone networks". Same article is published in conference sources.
Conference EWIMT has been intended for discussion of problems and for exchange of ideas, knowledge, experience in the field of data management technologies, semantic and media technologies. This action was carried out with the support of European Commission. It traditionally unifies potential and working participants of partner consortiums under EU projects. The program of conference included reports on workshop themes, presentation of examples of successful applications of the newest developments, and also a seminar held by representatives of the European Commission and devoted to the new program of Information Society Technology and to presentation of already financed projects in the field of media and semantic technologies. Participation of Dictum® Software Laboratory in conference EWIMT has taken place with organizational and financial support of the ADMIRE-P project. | |
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Dictum® Software Laboratory developments (namely Dictum® and DictaScope®) were presented at the International Conference EVA-2004 (Electronic imaging in the Virtual Art), which took place in London, UK on July 26 to 30, 2004. Conference were devoted to following topics:
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| New version of Russian language text parser DictaScope® is developed (experimental variant). Text analysis quality is main distinction from previous version. Developers concentrate attention on recognition of compound sentence and sentences with uniform members and phrases. Problems of homonyms recognition and prepositional control are partially solved. Possibility of using verb control models is provided. Software is available on-line. | |
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| On-line version of Russian natural language parser is available on the site | |
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| At the International Conference eChallenge, which took place in Bologna, Italy on October 22 to 24, 2003, the Nizhny Novgorod State University presented Dictum® Software Laboratory developments. Dictum® and DictaScope™ software were presented at a special session devoted to scientific and technologic co-operation between Russia and the EC. At personal meetings the EC organizations representatives showed interest in Dictum® Software developments. | |
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| The Nizhny Novgorord N.I. Lobachevsky State University and Nizhegorod Invest Service Ltd., whose department is Dictum® Software Lab., signed an Agreement on co-operation within the framework of the EC project IST-2001-35449 A Dense Multilevel Network for ICT Research Co-operation between the European Union and Privolzhsky Federal District (ADMIRE-P). With a view to assisting each other to solve both parties' statute tasks and the goals of the EC ADMIRE-P project, the parties came to an agreement to exchange information about EC science and technology programs and also events held within ADMIRE-P project, and scientific and innovation events which take place in Privolzhsky Federal District. The Agreement signed envisages establishment of a Nizhegorod Invest Service Ltd. - based Contact Point on information and communications echnologies. Information about ADMIRE-P project can be found on the official Internet site | |
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