In this work we present a logical reconstruction of Leonard Bloomfield’s theory of structural linguistics. First, the central notions of this theory are analyzed and discussed. In the following section, a reconstruction with the so-called structuralist approach in the philosophy of science is presented. After defining the general framework of Bloomfield’s theory, questions of lawlikeness and th...

A precondition for extracting information from large text corpora is discovering the information structures underlying the text. Progress in this direction is being made in the form of unsupervised information extraction (IE). We describe recent work in unsupervised relation extraction and compare its goals to those of grammar discovery for science sublanguages. We consider what this work on gr...

In appearance, Husserl’s writings seem not to have had any influence on linguistic research, nor does what the German philosopher wrote about language seem to be worth a place in the history of linguistics. The purpose of the paper is exactly to contrast this view, by reassessing both the position and the role of Husserl’s early masterpiece — the Logical Investigations — within the history of l...

The author considers specific features of software and methods of operation applied in two machine translation systems based on a common linguistic approach and intended to translate texts from English and German into Russian on an industrial scale. He describes the software structural pattern and linguistic tools used in the systems, as well as structures of specialised information files and t...