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Central and Eastern European Survey
General Info
Dept. of Artificial Intelligence
Institute of Information Technologies - Bulg. Acad. of Sciences
Type of Organisation: public
Number of Employees: Less than 10
Activities developed: Research, Education.
The involvement in NLP research in the Institute of information
Technologies - BAS is tightly connected to the basic research topics at the
Artificial Intelligence Department - Knowledge Representation and Logic
Programming. It has begun a few years ago with the development of the
Net-Clause Language (NCL). NCL is a distributed logic programming language,
based on data-driven computation and spreading activation. A formalism for
grammar representation with a built-in parser has been developed based on
NCL. It offers distributed knowledge representation and processing, and a
data-driven spreading activation control scheme. Grammars, described in the
formalism, are mapped into network models and can be directly executed
(parsed) as network programs in a distributed data-driven manner. The
parsing scheme utilizes the NCL default reasoning mechanism. (NCL is
available by anonymous ftp from the University of Georgia AI archive
ai.uga.edu, directory ai.misc)
The research and development activities in the AI department are currently
oriented also towards hypertext and multimedia systems and cover
application of knowledge-based methods and techniques in the presentation
and retrieval of multimedia documents.
The AI Department was partner in the following CEC funded projects: 1.
Joint European Project in University education in AI, TEMPUS - JEP 1728
(1991-1994) 2. Joint European Project in Knowledge-based Systems TEMPUS -
JEP 1497 (1991-1994) 3. Joint European Project in University education in
Computer Science for business, social and humanitarian specialists, TEMPUS
- JEP 7272 (1994-1997) 4. Pan-European Scientific Network in Inductive
Logic Programming (ILPNET) PECO 92, contract No. CIPA3510OCT920044
(1993-1996) 5. INCO-COPERNICUS PL 1104-96 AGILE - Automatic Generation of
Instructions in Languages of Eastern Europe. 6. . INCO-COPERNICUS PL
1060-96 ARCHIMED - Advanced Multimedia System Architectures for Educational
Telematics.
We are also associate nodes in COMPULOG and MLNET.
Courses on "Methods and Algorithms for NLP" and "Human-Computer Interfaces
ic Knowledge-Based Systems" are taught by members of AI Department in 3
Bulgarian Universities.
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