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University Information System Russia: Bilingual Search Tools for Data Integration

This paper discusses the University Information System in Russia, which provides bilingual search tools to integrate data and knowledge products. It covers various sources such as government documents, state agencies publications, academic publications, and more. The system also offers value-added services for research assistance and subject-oriented modules for databases and knowledge products.

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University Information System Russia: Bilingual Search Tools for Data Integration

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  1. University Information System RUSSIA: Bilingual (Russian - English) Search Tools to Integrate Data and Knowledge Products Moscow State University Research Computing Center NCO Center for Information Research Prepared for IASSIST Montreal, Canada May 2007 by Tatyana N. Yudina, Leading researcher, Ph.D. (history) Moscow State University Research Computing Center yudina@mail.cir.ru; Anna Bogomolova, Assistant professor, Ph.D. (economics) Moscow State University Economic Faculty bogo@mail.cir.ru

  2. University Information System RUSSIA Holdings 20 Gb/2 000,000 Source Retrospective Documents Government Documents State Agencies Publications; /Kodeks Law Firm 1990-… 180,000 State Duma Daily Records State DumaAnalytical Department 1994-… 170,000 State Statistics 1996-… More than 160,000 tables State Statistics Service; RF Ministries, CIS Interstate Statistics Committee Mass Media Expert Weekly; AiF; NG; Izvestia; Vedomosti… 199(7)-… 800,000 Academic Publications MSU Bulletins, EconomicForecasting, Sociology Research, Law… 2000… 20,000 State Agencies Analytical Reports, Think Tanks Reports Ministry for Ec. Dev. and Commerce; Central Bank; Accounting Chamber, Russian-European Center for Economic Policy; Fiscal Policy Center 1996-… 80,000 Surveys National Survey on Households Well-being 2003 227 questions, 45000 respondentsfrom 46 regions

  3. UIS RUSSIA Collections in English • European Court of Human Rights archive, • Council of Europe documents, • Publications of Kennan Institute, USA • OECD Health Data, • RePEc (Research Papers in Economics, www.repec.org) abstracts and full texts.

  4. holdings convertors Automatic LinguisticText Processing/Linguistic Processors *.HTM *.HDR *.LEM *.OUT *.POD WEB www.cir.ru (Apache; OAS) ORACLE Administrator NLP Technology in UIS RUSSIA

  5. Automatic Linguistic Text Processing (ALTP) ALTP is customized to content-based process and integrate into Oracle-based IS all main types of business prose text corpora (documents and statistical data)– government publications, parliament chambers daily records, think tanks reports, scientific journals, mass media, public opinion polls. Content-based processing performs: • Conceptual Indexing, • Coherent Summarization, • Text Categorization.

  6. THESAURUS for Information Retrievalin Sociopolitical Domain • Main element of ALTP is Thesaurus - hierarchical network of 45 000 descriptors, 107 000 synonyms, 175 000 relations; • Thesaurus provides for query refinement - reformulation - expansion; • Terminology of Thesaurus covers 95-98% of nowadays business prose - government publications, academic papers, mass media texts, statistical indicators; • Thesaurus is translated into English.

  7. Query Refinement

  8. Interactive Query Refinement

  9. Bilingual Search in UIS RUSSIA

  10. Value-added Services for Assisting Research • The UIS RUSSIA provides for value-added services to assist research including: • Cross-collection content-based search across 60 holdings exploiting SSH and thesaurus, • Thesaurus-based navigation to form a query, • Query refinement exploiting informers - document’s content, geography and dates; • Annotation/short summary complementing each full text document; • RF state statistics converted into relational data base format (power tables); • MS Excel 97 format available for all statistical tables, including the tables presented in analytical reports and scientific journals; • Links to the Methodological Notes and Glossary for statistics; • Graphics- and maps-based data representation ; • Archives in English available in interface and with an informer (table of content) in Russian; • JEL/Journal of Economic Literature-based search for think tanks reports and academic publications in Russian and in English, • Subject-oriented modules - databases and knowledge products • Relational database to integrate social, economic and budget data at federal, regional, local levels, • Data at household level on 46 regions of RF, • Interface and search tools in Russian for collections in English, • Full package of documents to compliment cases on Russia at European Court of Human Rights, • User-tailored information update by e-mail.

  11. Subject-Oriented Modules: Databases and Knowledge Products • RF: State Statistics; • RF: Budget System; • RF: Agriculture and Food Production; • RF: Population and Living Standards; • National Survey on Households Well-being (NOBUS); • Human Rights: International Organizations Documents. • RF: Regions, Municipalities, Households;

  12. Information System Maintaining European Court of Human Rights’ Documentswith Interface and Value-added User Services in RussianAvailable at Public Domain Site www.echr-base.ru Multifunctional information system regular updates a)full archive of European Court of Human Rights decisions and judgments, b)main Council of Europe, United Nations Organization, Commonwealth of Independent States documents and c)publications on the human rights protection produced by partners in Russia and other countries’ specialists, ECHR Secretariat. The system provides for friendly interface and value-added user services, including : • flexible search instruments in Russian; • profile in Russian to compliment each of European Court’s documents; • access to the European Court’s/Council of Europe documents available in Russian; • special module to monitor cases against Russia with links to national law at issue and publications on the topic; • hyperlinks to case law (Court’s precedents). The ECHR archive is legally obtained from the European Court Secretariat, archive is updated 3 times a year, December 2006 archive covers 45000 documents in English and in French. Training module for comparative law investigations is under construction.

  13. UIS RUSSIA and Partners • UIS RUSSIA is a core of distributed network of knowledge products. In 2007-2008 all main think tanks’ publications will be integrated. Most partners archives are copied to the UIS RUSSIA server. Some partners provide direct access to their servers for UIS RUSSIA registered users. This approach is preferable for future UIS RUSSIA development; • Among partners – educational portals that maintain publications for teaching in economics, social sciences, management. Cross servers search procedure is under construction.

  14. JEL/Journal of Economic Literature Classification System-based knowledge products integration

  15. JEL/Journal of Economic Literature Classification System-based knowledge products integration

  16. JEL/Journal of Economic Literature Classification System-based knowledge products integration

  17. Perspectives Contents and Research-assisting Services. Interface in English • Region of RF database with developed GIS component and on-line analysis tools to provide for system and comparative investigations at federal, regional, local and households levels; • Integration of holdings and data bases from partners in the regions – universities and think tanks publications - to maintain a distributed network of high quality resources on RF; • New component to maintain reports and databases of main international organizations (WB, IMF, UNESCO). Tools for international comparative investigations; • Finland-Russia component for comparative economic and social investigations at federal, regional, local levels. Indicators harmonization; Linguistic investigations • «Public administration» ontology (Russian-English) to integrate data and knowledge products.

  18. UIS RUSSIA operates as an electronic library for economic and social research since 2000. Access is free but registration-based. Users from all regions of RF: • 400+ collective users - universities, higher education institutions, colleges, Russian Academy of Sciences institutes, think tanks, government agencies; • 5000+ individual users. The project started in1988 at USA&Canada Institute. Since 1997 the team is accommodated at Moscow State University Research Computing Center, unites specialists from MSU faculties, other universities, Russian Academy of Sciences Institutes. UIS RUSSIA project is financed by grants from Russian and foreign funds – • Russian Fund for Basic Research www.rfbr.ru; • Russian Fund for Humanities www.rfh.ru; • MacArthur Foundation, USAwww.macfound.ru; • Ford Foundation, USA, www.fordfound.ru; • Eurasia Foundation, USAwww.eurasia.msk.ru • and contracts with RF government agencies, think tanks, business.

  19. http://uisrussia.msu.ru http://www.budgetrf.ru http://www.echr-base.ru Thank you!

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