"Reading. The encyclopedic dictionary"

The reading encyclopedia has been published for the first time in Russia. It generalizes the accumulated knowledge of the reading phenomenon in various science domains (philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, philology, bibliology, library studies, physiology, etc.) and represent it in its true scale – as the foundation, along with writing, of the civilization and a component of political, economical, humanitarian development of any state, as a keystone of full-fledged personal development. The dictionary comprises 371 definitions revealing various aspects of reading as a concept. The dictionary is intended for scientists and researchers, lecturers, teachers, librarians, under- and post-graduate students, for everyone who regards reading as “invaluable treasure” for a person and the humankind on the whole.

Leading Russian legal theorist is 80 years old. For the anniversary of V.M. Syrykh

Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the famous legal scholar Vladimir Mikhailovich Syrykh, the author of over 40 monographs, textbooks, teaching aids, many hundreds of scientific articles and other materials. The scientists contribution to legal science is analyzed. We focus on the methodology of the theory of law, method structure, content of the materialist theory of law, etc. The exceptional contribution of the scientist to preparation and publication of the Encyclopedic Dictionary Legal Science and Legal Ideology of Russia is distinguished. The ideas and assessments of the author's recent historical and legal monographs on the Soviet regime, the Red Terror, and Stalinist repressions are illustrated.

The Places of Memory of Ukrainian Diplomacy project as an encyclopedic work

The article is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and foreign countries. On this occasion, cultural and scientific events took place during 2017-2021. Contacts between figures of science and culture of Ukraine and others were promoted with these events. And another profit from them is the study of various issues increasing knowledge about the history of Ukrainian diplomacy. One of the elements of this process was the symbolic marking with memorial plaques in other countries, which make Ukraine’s historical diplomatic ties with them. Team work aimed to study the symbolic marks of Ukrainian diplomacy has contributed to the accumulation of a lot of important information. That’s why the idea appeared to build the encyclopedic work – Places of Memory of Ukrainian Diplomacy (currently being compiled). This article describes the significance of this encyclopedic dictionary in the context of covering the history of Ukrainian diplomacy, in particular showing the formation of close diplomatic relations with other states, which took place during the turbulent period of 1917-1921.

Sh. Marjani’s “Wafi yat al-’Aslaf” as a Monument of Arabo-Islamic Culture

Sh. Marjani’s seven- volume handwritten work “Wafi yat al-aslaf” is an encyclopedic dictionary devoted to the 6057 famous Muslim scholars, writers, philosophers, dignitaries, rulers etc. since the 7th century B. C. Marjani himself considered “Wafi yat al-aslaf” as his main work. The text is nothing but compilation, while the most scholarly interesting content concerns the Turkic world of the 17–19th centuries (Volga- Ural Region, Central Asia, Caucasus, Crimea). The original treatment of rich material of Muslim culture as well as author’s assessment of certain historical facts and events demonstrate, Marjani is not only a highly educated theologian, but also an erudite and talented scholar and enlightener. The academic value of the encyclopedia consists in its ability to shed light on the Marjani’s worldview, which is manifested in his selection of historical fi gures and in mode of description of their life and works.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Genres of Natural Written Speech of Kuzbass: draft dictionary entry

This report presents the project of the «Encyclopedia of genres of natural written speech of Kuzbass», which is being developed by members of the Laboratory of Natural Written Russian Speech at Kemerovo State University. Using the example of a dictionary entry of the ad genre, the concept of a new lexicographic product is considered.

Keys to the Folk Bible

Рецензия на: Восточнославянские этиологические сказки и легенды: Энциклопедический словарь / Под общ. ред. Г. И. Кабаковой; Cост. О. В. Белова, А. В. Гура, Г. И. Кабакова, С. М. Толстая. - М.: Неолит, 2019. - 480 с. Review of: Etiological Tales and Legends of the Eastern Slavs: Encyclopedic Dictionary. Ed. by G. I. Kabakova, O. V. Belova, A. V. Gura, S. M. Tolstaya. Moscow: Neolit, 2019. 480 p.

Towards Building a Multilingual Sememe Knowledge Base: Predicting Sememes for BabelNet Synsets

A sememe is defined as the minimum semantic unit of human languages. Sememe knowledge bases (KBs), which contain words annotated with sememes, have been successfully applied to many NLP tasks. However, existing sememe KBs are built on only a few languages, which hinders their widespread utilization. To address the issue, we propose to build a unified sememe KB for multiple languages based on BabelNet, a multilingual encyclopedic dictionary. We first build a dataset serving as the seed of the multilingual sememe KB. It manually annotates sememes for over 15 thousand synsets (the entries of BabelNet). Then, we present a novel task of automatic sememe prediction for synsets, aiming to expand the seed dataset into a usable KB. We also propose two simple and effective models, which exploit different information of synsets. Finally, we conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses to explore important factors and difficulties in the task. All the source code and data of this work can be obtained on https://github.com/thunlp/BabelNet-Sememe-Prediction.