Central and Eastern European Survey

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Type of Organisation: public
Number of Employees: 10-50
Activities developed: Research, education, coordination..

Information about the Centre Scientific-educational Centre "Language, Logic, Speech" is founded at the Tbilisi State University in 1994. Some years ago the Centre became ELSNET member. The information about early activity of the Centre was included in one of ELSNews issues. The Centre regularly organizes International Symposia and Summer Schools on Language, Logic, Computation. The First of the Schools was held in Tbilisi in 1994, the First Symposium - in 1995 (at mountain resort Gudauri),the Second one - in 1997 (in Tbilisi), the Third - 1999 (in sea resort Chakvi), the Fourth – 2001 (in the Borjomi-Likani spa). Several famous linguists, logicians and specialists in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics from more than 30 countries participated in these forums. The Symposia were sponsored by several International Funds and Western Universities (in the first place by the Amsterdam University). The series of these bi-annual Symposia is supposed to be continued (the next one is planned on 2003). The Proceedings and Theses of Symposia were published in Stanford (USA), Tbilisi (Georgia), Edinburgh (Great Britain), etc. At the same time the Centre managed to publish popular issues concerning the development of the logic in Georgia. More than 200 volumes of up-to-date scientific literature lay down the foundations of the special library. Several courses on the main topics of the Centre (Language, Logic, Computation) are delivered for the students and aspirants of various faculties of the Tbilisi State University. Some common scientific Projects were accomplished under management of the Centre. Up to 20 young scientists and students were sent on probation to the Scientific Centres and Universities of the Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, etc. The last summer School was held in August-September of 2001 at the Tbilisi State University. The short courses were delivered by prominent scholars from Austria, Great Britain, France, Ireland and Russia. The main aims of the Centre: Creation of a special group for evaluation of soft-ware products and elaboration of corresponding criteria. Foundation of a Cognitive Science Centre Uniting the scholars from the fields of Linguistics, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy. Expansion and strengthening of international contacts with corresponding foreign Centres and Universities, intensification of the exchange with them of the students, aspirants, young scientists and lecturers. Creation of a regional resource and information basis for Language, Logic and Computation; co-ordination of scientific-educational activity in the South-Caucasian region, in which the Centre is the single organization oriented on these disciplines. Organizing of systematic courses on Language, Logic, Computation for the students and aspirants of various faculties. Creation of computer version of the Georgian speech corpora. Introduction and development of the distance learning, which should support development of science and education, further integration of the West and East. Continuation of the series of bi-annual Symposia "Language, Logic, Computation", regular publication of their Proceedings and other scientific literature on the same topics. Organization of bi-annual Summer Schools on Language, Logic, Computation, regularly (in the years between of Symposia data). Centre programs: English-Georgian automatic dictionary with morphologic processors; Computer synthesis and analysis on all linguistic levels. Creation of Georgian speech corpus mirroring the gender peculiarities from typological point of view. Creation of data bases of Caucasian languages and particularly of the endangered ones. Further development of Computer Science: creation of Georgian computer medium and investigation of possibility and expediency of the Georgian and similar languages as a basic computer language. Organization of short-term and long-term courses on Georgian literature and culture for foreigners.

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