Expert profile: Serge Yablonsky

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CURRICULUM VITAE

   PERSONAL

   Born March 5, 1953 in St.- Petersburg, Russia.

   Married, with daughter.

   COMPLETE CONTACT INFORMATION

   mailing address:
   190000, RUSSIA, ST.-PETERSBURG, KAZANSKAYA 56,
   Ap. 2 

   phone:
   (011-7-812) 312-72-13 

   fax:
   (011-7-812) 312-72-13 

   e-mail:
   root@russicon.spb.su 

   http:
   //www.russicon.ru/ 

   EDUCATION

   On leaving school in 1970 entered Petersburg University of Transport,
   Electrical engineering department at speciality on computers. Received
   MS with honours s in 1975.

   In 1984 received Candidate of Computer Science (PhD. in Computer
   Science) from St.- Petersburg Electrical Engineering University.

   In 1993 received A level certificate of the Walla Walla College
   English Language School (USA).

   ACADEMIC TITLES

   - Candidate of Computer Science (PhD. in Computer Science);

   - Docent;

   - Senior Science Collaborator.

   PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

   1998 - Edition, encoding in SGML by designing C-conversion programs,
   and configuring by SoftQuad SGML Publishing Suite text resources (21
   000 000 words in German) for TELRI Association (Institut fuer Deutsche
   Sprache Postfach 101621 D-68016 Mannheim, Germany). Finished in April
   1998.

   1998/199/2000 - member of the international conference INFOTRANS-98
   drafting committee, editor, cover designer and publisher of conference
   proceedings. 

   1997 - scientific coordinator of the proposal: "DEVELOPMENT OF
   COMPUTER ASSISTED RUSSIAN LANGUAGE LEARNING SYSTEM ON THE WWW
   (CARUL_W)" (Partners: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Russicon Company,
   St. Petersburg University, Confluence Multimedia Publishing, number of
   registration #7032) in the second INCO COPERNICUS 1997. The proposal
   is placed in reserved list to receive financial support. 

   1997 - member of the international conference INFOTRANS-97(Information
   Technologies on the Transport) drafting committee, editor, cover
   designer and publisher of conference proceedings. 

   1996 - 1997 - project reviewer in Computer Linguistics DGXIII,
   European Commission (project GLOSSER).

   1991 - to present - director and one of main programmers of Russicon
   Company. Among our clients of Russicon Company are InSo International
   (USA), Accent Software International Ltd. (Israel), Proximity (USA),
   Franklin Electronic Publishers (USA), L&H (Belgium), Poligraphmash
   (Russia), the Gosudarstvennaya Duma of Russia (Parliament) and many
   others ( 
   http://www.russicon.ru). Russicon Company is a member of the European
   Network of Excellence in Natural Language and Speech (ELSNET) and a
   member of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of AACE (APC AACE). 

   Russian language linguistic programming of
     + morphological analyzer;
     + disambiguater;
     + processing systems and databases for grammatical and explanatory
       dictionaries, thesaurus etc.;
     + compression algorithms for electronic dictionaries;
     + syntactic analyzer;
     + expert system for new words processing (morphologic markers,
       disambiguation rules, syntactic markers of lexemes etc.).

   1996 - chair of the round table "Language software design - scientific
   and industrial overlook" in Awareness Seminar of European Commission
   "Language&Technology", St.-Petersburg, 11-12 April, 1996.

   1995 - Lecturer of Jerusalem University, Computer Department.

   1989 - to present - scientific manager and main programmer of Railway
   Information System (Economic indexes of Soviet/Russian railroads)that
   is used on ALL railroads of Russia.

   1982 - to present - Docent (Associate Professor) Department of
   Computing in St.Petersburg Transport University and the Chair of the
   Software Division. The Division offers BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees, with
   roughly 25, 15, and 2 students in each program, respectively.

   1975 - 1982 science collaborator of the Computer Department in
   St.-Petersburg 

   Transport University.



   PUBLICATIONS

   125 publications. Some of the recent:

   Belyaev B.M., Surcis A.S., Yablonsky S.A. (1993). Russian Language
       Processor RUSSICON: Design and Applications. In Proceedings of the
       East-West Artificial Intelligence Conference (EWAIC-93) ( pp.
       175-180 ), Moscow.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1994) Application of the Russian Language
       Processor Russicon in Language Learning. In Proceedings of the
       ED-MEDIA'94 - World conference on educational multimedia and
       hypermedia, ( p. 778 ), Vancouver, Canada.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1994). Application of the Russian Language
       Processor Russicon in Language Learning. In Proceedings of the
       ED-MEDIA'94 - World conference on educational multimedia and
       hypermedia ( p. 778 ), Vancouver.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1997). Leshtukovskay Printing House of
       P.J.Yablonsky. In Petersburg Readings97. Materials of the
       Encyclopedic Library "St.Petersburg-2003"(pp.140-143).
       St.-Petersburg.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1998). New Capabilities for Russian and Ukrainian
       Language Learning Based on the Language Processor Russicon. In
       Sake Jager, John Nerbonne and Arthur van Essen (eds). In:
       "Language Teaching and Language Technology". Lisse: Swets and
       Zeitlinger.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1998). Russicon Slavonic Language Resources and
       Software. In: W. Teubert, E. Tognini Bonelli and N. Volz (eds.)
       Proceedings of the Third European Seminar Translation Equivalence,
       ( pp. 217-227), Montecatini Terme, Italy.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1998). Development of Computer Assisted Russian
       Language Learning System on the ELSNET WWW Server. In Proceedings
       of the Elsnet in Wonderland Conference ( pp. 19-25 ), Soesterberg,
       The Netherlands, March, 1998.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1998). Russicon Slavonic Language Resources and
       Software. In: A. Rubio, N. Gallardo, R. Castro & A. Tejada (eds.)
       Proceedings First International Conference on Language Resources &
       Evaluation, ( pp. 1141-1147), Granada, Spain.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1998). Development of Russian Language Learning
       System on the WWW. In: Abstracts of the International conference
       The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age, (pp. 123-127),
       September 25-28, Bergen, Norway (http://www.futurehum.uib.no/).
       Yablonsky S.A. (1998). Design of Computer Russian Orthodox Bible
       System: Problems and Perspective. In Proceedings of Summer school
       Application of Information Technologies to Biblical Studies
       (AITBS), ( pp. 44-48), Sofia, Bulgaria.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1999). Russian Written Language Corpora
       Development. In: Proceedings of the International Seminar
       Dialog99, May 30-June 8, Tarussa, Russia.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1999). Russian 20th Century Literature Digital
       Library for Language Teaching. In: Proceedings of the
       International Conference Digital Libraries for Humanities
       Scholarship and Teaching, June 9-13, 1999, (pp. 252 - 253),
       University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
       Yablonsky S.A. (1999). Russian Morphological Analyses. In:
       Proceedings of the International ConferenceVEXTAL, November 22-24
       1999, (pp. 83 - 90),Venezia, Italia.
       Yablonsky S.A. (2000). Russicon Slavonic Language Resources and
       Software. In: A. Rubio, N. Gallardo, R. Castro & A. Tejada (eds.)
       Proceedings First International Conference on Language Resources &
       Evaluation, ( pp. 1141-1147), Granada, Spain.
       Yablonsky S.A., (2000). Forthcoming Slavic Language Processing,
       St.-Petersburg, Russia, 304 p.
       MEMBERSHIP

   Member of the Russian Artificial Intelligence Society (
   http://www.csa.ru/AI/country/russia/spbaai/english/ members.htm). 

   AREAS OF INTEREST

   Linguistic Software Engineering.

   Speech recognition and synthesis

   Phonetic transcription

   Algorithms and program realization of the Inflection Languages
   Morphologic and Syntactic analysis and synthesis.

   Data structures, methods of the compression and program realization of
   the electronic dictionaries, language learning systems.

   Auto-indexing, indexing and retrieval methods for large text bases.

   Data base development.

   Intelligent agents.

   Abstract Painting and Computer Art

   History of Russia

   SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS

   Wide experience of work in organizing and managing of private company
   in Russia.

   Fluent English.