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Pavel Braslavski @ RuSSIR 2009 party, by Katya Vylomova

Pavel Braslavski

Born in 1973 in Sverdlovsk.
Graduated from the school No. 37 (1990),
Physics and Technology Dept. of the Ural State Tech. University (1997),
Art History and Cultural Studies Dept. of the Ural state Gorki University (2000).
Ph.D. (Candidate of Science) in Technology (2000), Ph.D. (Candidate of Science) in Cultural Studies (2003).

Married to Marina Driker, sons Arseny and Arkady.

More information can be found on the Russian version of this page.

pb[AT]imach[dot]uran[dot]ru

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Current jobs

Earlier employments: Metatron, Avtomir, IgRek, EastWind, IMACH UD RAS.

Dissertations

  1. Methods for a more efficient information retrieval of scientific texts on the Web. Ekaterinburg, Ural State Technical University, 2000. In Russian. (24-page summary, full text)
  2. Virtual reality technology as a cultural phenomenon of the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st centuries. Ekaterinburg, Ural State University, 2003. In Russian. (24-page summary + full text)

Main publications

Computer Science

    2010

  1. Braslavski P. Marrying relevance and genre rankings: an exploratory study (preprint, to appear in Genres on the Web)

    2008

  2. Braslavski P., Sokolov E. Comparison of Five Methods for Variable Length Term Extraction. In Proc. of the Dialog-2008 Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies, 2008, pp. 67-74. In Russian. (HTML, PDF)
  3. Rehm G., Santini M., Mehler A., Braslavski P., Gleim R., Stubbe A., Symonenko S., Tavosanis M., Vidulin V. Towards a Reference Corpus of Web Genres for the Evaluation of Genre Identification Systems. In Proc. of LREC 2008, May 28–30, Marrakech, Morocco, 2008. (PDF)

    2007

  4. Internet Mathematics 2007: Proceedings of the Contest. Ed. P. Braslavski. Ekaterinburg: Ural State Univ. Press, 2007. (book's page)
  5. Braslavski P. Combining Relevance and Genre-Related Rankings: an Exploratory Study. In Proc. of the International Workshop "Towards Genre-Enabled Search Engines: The Impact of NLP", Georg Rehm, Marina Santini (eds.), Borovets, Bulgaria, September 30, 2007, pp. 1-4. (local PDF, full proceedings)
  6. Braslavski P., Gustelev V. Automatic summarization system of news articles based on machine learning approach. In Proc. of the RCDL'2007, pp. 142-147. In Russian. (local PDF, PDF)
  7. Braslavski P., Sokolov E. Automatic Term Extraction Using Internet Search Engines. In Proc. of the Dialog-2007 Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies, 2007, pp. 89-94. In Russian. (local PDF, HTML, PDF)

    2006

  8. Braslavski P., Sokolov E. Comparison of Four Methods for Automatic Two-Word Term Extraction. In Proc. of the Dialog-2006 Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies, 2006, pp. 88-94. In Russian. (HTML, PDF, local PDF)
  9. Maslov M., Golovko A., Segalovich I., Braslavski P. Extracting News-Related Queries from Web Query Log. In Proc. of WWW2006, May 23-26, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland. (PDF, HTML, HTML@Yandex )
  10. Pyalling A., Maslov M., Braslavski P. Automatic Geotagging of Russian Web Sites. In Proc. of WWW2006, May 23-26, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland. (PDF, HTML, HTML@Yandex)

    2005

  11. Braslavski P., Tselishchev A. Style-Dependent Document Ranking. In Proc. of the RCDL'2005, pp. 159-164 (PDF, PDF@Yandex)
  12. Braslavski P., Shishkin A. A User-Centered Comparison of Web Search Tools. In Proc. of the Dialog-2005 Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies, Zvenigorod, June 1-7, 2005, pp. 554-560. (HTML, PDF, local PDF)
  13. Braslavski P., Kolychev I. eXtragon: an Experimental Automatic Web Document Summarizer. In Proc. the of ROMIP'2005, pp. 40-53. In Russian. (PDF, PDF@Yandex )
  14. Braslavski P., Shishkin A. A Specialized Metasearch Engine ProThes: Design and Implementation. In Computational technologies, 2005. Vol. 10. Special issue. Proceedings of the IX Workshop on the Electronic Publications (El-Pub2004) Novosibirsk, 23-25 September 2004, pp. 49-57. In Russian. (local PDF, abstract in English)

    2004

  15. Braslavski P., Alshanski G., Shishkin A. ProThes: Thesaurus-based Meta-Search Engine for a Specific Application Domain. In Proc. of WWW2004, May 17-22, 2004, New York, NY USA. Vol. 2, pp. 222-223. (PDF)
  16. Braslavski P. Automatic Operations on Web Search Queries Using a Thesaurus: Approaches and Feasibility Estimation. In Proc. of the Dialog-2004 Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies, pp. 79-84. In Russian. (PDF, HTML)
  17. Braslavski P., Shishkin A., Alshanski G. 3 in 1: Meta-Search, Thesaurus, and GUI for Focused Web Information Retrieval. In Proc. of the RCDL'2004, September 29 - October 1, 2004, Pushchino, pp. 135-140. (PDF)
  18. Braslavski P. Document Style Recognition Using Shallow Statistical Analysis. In Proc. of the ESSLLI 2004 Workshop on Combining Shallow and Deep Processing for NLP, Nancy, France, 2004, pp. 1-9. (full workshop proceedings, my paper)

    2003

  19. Braslavski P. Thesaurus for Web Search Query Expansion: Structure and Functions. In Proc. of the Dialog-2003 Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies, 2003, pp. 95-100. In Russian. (PDF, HTML, local PDF)
  20. Braslavski P. Automatic Text Categorization by Styles: Case Study on Web Documents. In Russkij yazyk v Internete (Russian Language on the Internet). Kazan, 2003, pp. 6-15. In Russian.

    2002

  21. Braslavski P., Vovk E., Maslov M. Facet-Based Internet Directory Design and Automated Genre Classification of Documents. In Proc. of the Dialog-2003 Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies, 2003. Vol. 2, pp. 83-93. In Russian. (HTML, HTML@Yandex, HTML@Dialog)
  22. Braslavski P., Krichel T. OAI and AMF for Academic Self-Documentation. In Proc. of the RCDL'2002, Dubna, 2002. Vol. 2, pp. 97-104. (PDF, PDF@Thomas)
  23. Braslavski P. Metasearch Engine for Narrow Scientific Information Retrieval on the Web: Structure and Functions. In Proc. of the Tomsk State University, 2002. Vol. 1 (II) Suppl. Vol., pp. 353 - 356. In Russain.

    2001

  24. Braslavski P. Morphological Structure of Functional Styles: Case Study on Web Documents. In Proc. of the Ural State University, 2001. Vol. 21, pp. 9-17. In Russian (HTML)
  25. Braslavski P. Building Web Search Queries Using Thesaurus. In Proc. of the RCDL'2001. In Russian. (RTF)
  26. Braslavski P. Use of Document Stylistic Features in the Internet Information Retrieval. In Proc. of the Workshop "El-Pub2001", 2001, April 25-27, Novosibirsk. In Russian. (HTML)

    2000 and earlier

  27. Braslavski P. Automatic classification of Web documents according to Style: a model implementation. In Proc. of the Workshop "El-Pub2000". Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, 2000, June 21 -23. In Russian. (HTML)
  28. Braslavski P. Recognition of Writing Style in Information Retrieval: Task Formulation. In Matematicheskie struktury i modelirovanie (Mathematical Structures and Modelling). Issue 3. Omsk: Omsk State University, 1999, pp. 134-140. In Russian.
  29. Braslavski P., Goldstein S., Tkachenko T. Thesaurus as a Knowledge Description Tool. In Nauchnaya i tehnicheskaya informaciya (Scientific and Technical Information). Series 2. Vol. 11. 1997, pp. 16-22. In Russian. (image)

The humanities (to be translated...)

  1. Браславский П.И., Колпачников В.В., Дрикер М.Б. Игровая виртуальная реальность – новое пространство приобретения личного опыта // Известия уральского государственного университета, 2005. – №35. – С. 74-81. (HTML)
  2. Браславский П.И. Война и современные способы ее репрезентации // Толерантность: Вестник Уральского межрегионального института общественных наук. Екатеринбург, 2003. (an earlier version in "Investigated in Russia", PDF)
  3. Браславский П.И. Театр и его двойник - виртуальная реальность // Известия Уральского государственного университета. 2003. № 27. (HTML)
  4. Браславский П.И. Тело как интерфейс: антропологические аспекты современных коммуникаций//Эпистемы-3: Язык. Дискурс. Текст: Альманах. Екатеринбург, 2004. С. 156-165.
  5. Браславский П.И. Технологии виртуальной реальности: между Аресом и Мельпоменой//Перекресток культур: Междисциплинарные исследования в области гуманитарных наук. М., 2004. С. 303-323.
  6. Браславский П.И. Виртуальная реальность: технология на пересечении философских концепций //Рационализм и культура на пороге третьего тысячелетия: Материалы Третьего Российского философского конгресса (16-20 сентября 2002 г.). В 3 т. Т.1. – Ростов н/Д: Изд-во СКНЦ ВШ, 2002. – С. 341-343.(HTML)
  7. Браславский П.И. Виртуальная реальность, или бегство от свободы // Коллизии свободы в постиндустриальном обществе: Материалы междунар. научно-практической конференции. Екатеринбург, 15-16 мая 2003 г. – Екатеринбург: Изд-во Гуманит. ун-та, 2003. – С. 457-460.
  8. Браславский П.И. Современный социально-экономический этос Русской Православной Церкви: перспективы и границы толератности. (PDF, ждет публикации с 2004 ;)
  9. Браславский П.И., Данилов С.Ю. Интернет как средство аккультурации// Взаимопонимание в диалоге культур: условия успешности : в 2 ч./ под общ. ред. Л. И. Гришаевой, М. К. Поповой. - Воронеж : Изд-во ВГУ, 2004. - Ч. 1. - С. 215–228. (local PDF)

Teaching

  1. Introduction to Information Retrieval @ USU
  2. Selected IR applications and tasks, @ Yandex' Data Analysis School + USU
  3. Intelligent Information Systems @ USTU
  4. Virtual technologies of Visual Culture (aka Computer and Culture) @ USU

Presentations

  1. Syntax: Should It Be Counted in Automatic Summarisation Tasks? (together with Nadiya Yampolska) Sixth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation. Batumi, Georgia, September 12-16, 2005. (PDF)
  2. EastWind Solutions for Business Process Optimization and Revenue Assurance. Case Study: Babilon-Mobile (Tajikistan). "Transforming Telecom Back Office", Copenhagen, June 6-7, 2005.
  3. ProThes: Thesaurus-Based Querying Middleware. SAMSUNG Young Scientist Day (Novosibirsk, April 26-27, 2004). (PDF)
  4. Experimente zur automatischen Textstilerkennung, FU Berlin, 29.01.2004. (PDF)
  5. Metasuchmaschine fur eine spezielle Anwendungsdomane, FU Berlin, 06.02.2004. (PDF)
  6. Can Web search be stylish? SPbSU, 19.11.2008. (slides + video).
  7. Semantically related queries on the Web: how to find, how to use? RIT++ Conference, 13.04.2010 (presentation, transcript - in Russian)

Grants

  1. RFBR travel grant for participation in RANLP2007.
  2. Local organizers' grant, ESSLLI 2006.
  3. Yandex grant, Query-Biased Summarization of Web Documents, project lead (2005).
  4. Yandex grant, Style-Dependent Ranking of Web Documents, project lead (2005).
  5. RFBR grant, Study of Virtual Reality as a Symbolic Means of Development of Human Psyche, project member.
  6. RFBR grant, Russian Large-scale Information Resources for Information Retrieval Evaluation, project member (2004-2006).
  7. RFBR grant, Internet Metasearch Engine for a Narrow Scientific Domain, project lead (2003-2004).
  8. Local organizers' grant and RFBR travel grant, ESSLLI 2004.
  9. INO-Center grant, The Christian tradition of tolerance in social and economic relations: Russia and the West. Comparative analysis and key development trends, project member (2003).
  10. DAAD funded research at the Freie University Berlin, Databases and Information Systems group (2003-2004).
  11. UB RAS grant for young scientists, Automatic visual inspection of microelectronics products: vectorization methods and information support tools, project lead (2003).
  12. Open Society Institute grant for participation in CEU SUN 2003.
  13. Carnegie Research Fellowship Program grantee, research at Kansas University (2002).
  14. Presidential stipend for post-graduate students, 1999-2000.

Professional activities

Side projects

Photo: Nancy 2004, Georgia 2005, Edinburgh 2006, Malaga 2006, DR 2006.

Last modified 19.04.2010