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options (video, animation, sound, high-quality illustrations, and hundreds
of interactive activities) make the learning process interesting and efficient.
Technologies and software for creating these teaching aids can be also used for
creating education facilities for other subject fields in various languages.
TatSoft 2 software package supporting the Tatar language in ICTs includes
all the above-mentioned tools for working with the Tatar language and can be
easily installed by any user.
Our long-term activities are the following.
Creating an intellectual multilingual search engine. This initiative,
facilitating the creation of an electronic Tatar corpus, is conditioned upon the
current linguistic situation in the republic and upon new emerging linguistic
and intellectual technologies for multilingual search based on a thorough word
sense disambiguation. Regarding that in some developed countries several
languages enjoy official status, the project can become in demand for further
commercial use.
Developing speech recognition software for Tatar. This action line is especially
important as speech technologies are expected to be among the top trends of
IT development in the coming years and ASR is to be widely implemented in
major economy sectors.
Creating machine translators. A Tatar-Russian machine translator will enable
access to English online databases through Russian equivalents, thus supporting
equality of Tatar and Russian as official languages of the Republic. Machine
translators for Tatar and other Turkic languages will facilitate the convergence
of kindred languages speakers. The task of creating such programmes is rather
easily solved due to the affinity of languages.
Using Cognitive Potential of the Tatar Language for Creating New
Information Technologies
This area of research is related to the crucial task of developing intelligent
operating systems and software tools using the potential of natural languages,
their semantic and syntactic structures, as well as vocabulary.
Four factors are essential for computer technologies, namely information
processing time, memory capacity for data storage, active character of
knowledge and the ability to give fuzzy instructions (unambiguous in a certain
context). The latter two properties are of critical importance for intelligent
systems and technologies. Research in this field is a burning issue. In case
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