RUSLAN as a Semantic Dictionary for Information Extraction

The Semantic Dictionary RUSLAN-1, the last version being Russian-to-English direction, is a tool for semantic and informational analysis of any coherent Russian text. The rich semantic information contained in the dictionary makes possible local, within one phrase, semantic interpretation as well as semantic analysis of coherent texts. Some zones of the dictionary provide the possibility of logical and situational analysis of a text and a link to different domains and tasks. At the moment the dictionary accounts 12000 entries. Entering semantic descriptions in dBase form you receive also the textual file, and vice versa. The dictionary may be called from any program dealing with syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of Russian texts, so it has a status of reusable dictionary resource.