The Department of Intelligent Computer Systems (ICS) was founded at the Faculty of Informatics and Management based on the Departments of Automated Control Systems and Business Foreign Language and Translation.
The Department’s birthday is 12 February 2007 (Rector’s Order No. 90-1 of 19.02.2007). It is one of the youngest departments of NTU ‘KPI’.
The Department was entrusted with the training of bachelors in the speciality 6.030500 ‘Applied Linguistics’ in the direction 6.0305 ‘Philology’.
In September 2007, the first group began their studies in this speciality.
The department started its activities with one classroom (room 707, building U2), six teachers, and teaching and support staff.
A year later, the department staff and the classroom fund increased. The department was provided with classrooms in the academic building U5.
The department is a graduating one, providing training in its specialisation Applied Linguistics (its code has changed to 035.10) and in the educational programme «Applied and Computer Linguistics», based on the unique for Ukraine conceptual model of a specialist developed at the department.
A unique curriculum was developed to implement the model of training specialists in applied and computer linguistics that combined classical linguistic disciplines with special technical disciplines. Studying these disciplines in combination allows students to acquire practical habits of working with linguistic material, analysing it, and using it to solve specific tasks in automated and automatic natural language processing.
In June 2011, the department graduated with its first bachelor’s, in 2012 – its first specialist, and in May 2018 – its first master’s.
From the day of its foundation till 31.08.2024, the chair was headed by Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Natalia Valerievna Sharonova. The range of her interests is connected with research in artificial intelligence, automated natural language processing, automation of library processes, computer linguistics, and intelligent data processing systems.
Under the guidance of Natalya Valeryevna Sharonova, 26 candidate theses and 3 doctoral dissertations have already been defended. Natalia Valeryevna has been a member of specialised dissertation defence councils for many years. She is the author of more than 160 scientific works, 7 textbooks, 2 with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and 2 monographs.
Since 2003, she has been the President of the Kharkiv branch of the Ukrainian Federation of Informatics.
Since 2009, she has been a member of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine in the field of information technologies. She is a member of the Board of the Association of Modern Information and Library Technologies and actively works on creating and developing the Kharkiv regional scientific and educational information network.
Since 2010, she has been a member of the Scientific Council at the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on the problems of “Information. Language. Intellect”, and is also a member of the commission for working out the standards of the speciality “Applied Linguistics”.
Besides, in November 2010, Professor N.V. Sharonova became a member of the specialised Academic Council on the speciality 10.02.21 – Structural, Applied and Mathematical Linguistics, established at the Kyiv National University, named after T.H. Shevchenko.
She actively organises and conducts scientific conferences, seminars, and exhibitions, including international ones.
In 2019, Sharonova Natalia Valerievna was awarded a diploma and a medal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine’s “For Services to the Ukrainian People” in 2020. – Order of Princess Olga IIІ degree for a significant personal contribution to the development of national education and science, training of highly qualified specialists, many years of conscientious labour and high professionalism.
The optimism and inexhaustible energy of the founder and the first head of the department serve as an example of scientific research and vitality for all department members.
At the beginning of 2016, the Department of ICS was transferred to the Faculty of Social and Humanitarian Technologies, and in 2022, the Faculty was renamed the Educational and Scientific Institute of social and humanitarian technologies.
On 12 February 2017, the Department of Intelligent Computer Systems
celebrated its 10th anniversary. On this day, there were many guests, congratulations, wishes and gifts from the management of NTU ‘KhPI’, colleagues, and our graduates.
Photo chronicle of the 10th anniversary:
Today, the Department employs 15 teachers, including 2 doctors of sciences, professors, and 8 candidates of sciences. All of them are experienced specialists in the field of programming, intelligent data processing systems, Internet technologies, automated natural language processing, and Ukrainian and foreign (English, German, French) languages.
The Department has 6 classrooms for laboratory and practical classes, a computer class, and a laboratory “Elements of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Technology”.
The department’s lecturers have developed more than 30 new lecture courses and programmes of industrial practice, published 10 monographs, and published more than 500 scientific articles.
The department constantly strives to make its name correspond to its essence so that all lecture courses are based not only on the latest achievements of science but also on its own experience of scientific developments.
Moreover, it gives its results – there is a continuous training process of its own professional, highly qualified personnel. Thus, during 2007-2021, 18 theses were defended at the ICS department, including 15 candidates and 3 doctoral theses.
In 2009, the Research Centre of Intelligent Systems and Computer Linguistics was established on the basis of the Department of ICS, together with the Ukrainian Language and Information Foundation of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The Centre, as a structural subdivision of NTU “KhPI”, was created to improve the efficiency of research and development by integrating scientists of higher education and academic scientific organisations with state status.
The great attention of the department is paid to scientific work with students as well as vocational guidance work.
Our students have repeatedly won in Kharkiv and Ukrainian Olympiads and various competitions. The graduates, Anastasia Doroshenko, Svitlana Petrasova, Alina Khailo, Ksenia Koniaieva, Yulia Tsibizova, Vitalii Tereshchenko, Silvette Luda Erika, Catherine Kislaya and many others left their marks in the history of the department.
Annually, since 2009, the department held a scientific and practical conference, “Intelligent Systems and Applied Linguistics” (ISAL), for industry specialists, postgraduates, students and young scientists, which since 2012 has acquired the status of All-Ukrainian.
The conference aimed to discuss the development of applied linguistics and the implementation of information technologies in linguistic systems, the exchange of ideas, and the discussion of trends in developing intelligent computer systems.
It was a place (platform) to discuss challenges and progress in computational, mathematical, structural and applied linguistics. All papers accepted at ISAL were published in the conference proceedings.
For 6 years, this conference has grown to the level of All-Ukrainian, and since 2017, it became International, changing its name to “Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Systems (CoLInS)”.
Since then, CoLInS has cooperated with the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” and the “Lviv Polytechnic” National University.
Many Ukrainian and foreign researchers have participated in the conference every year.
The main goal of the CoLInS conference is to discuss the results of the latest research in natural language processing and development of intelligent systems, exchange ideas, discuss trends in developing intelligent computer systems, establish fruitful contacts and promote talented young people in scientific activities.
In 2018, Politechnika Śląska and LIMSI-CNRS & Université Paris 13 became co-organisers, thus contributing to a significant expansion of the international programme committee.
All the best papers accepted by the programme committee were indexed in SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar. In 2021, all proceedings of the 2018 – 2021 conferences were included in Web of Science.
CoLInS 2021 attracted more than 480 participants from various countries, including Azerbaijan, Germany, India, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Morocco, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, and the UK. The conference, as in 2020, was held online. The keynote speakers’ sessions were broadcast on the Facebook page.
The VII International Conference on “Computer Linguistics and Intelligent Systems” (CoLInS 2023) was held on 20-21 April 2023. All conference proceedings were also indexed in SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar.
The Department of Intelligent Computer Systems actively establishes and expands international contacts with universities in other countries. Bilateral cooperation agreements have been signed with Linnaeus University (Sweden) and L’Universite de Lyon (France). Negotiations are underway with universities in Germany, Austria, Poland and Bulgaria.
On 26 April 2021, within the framework of international cooperation of the Department of Intelligent Computer Systems with the University of Lyon, a scientific seminar was held under the guidance of Dr Khairova Nina Feliksovna “Automatic generation of the multilingual dictionary of synonyms for crime-related terms and words”. The seminar participants were staff and doctoral students of the ERIC laboratory and Associate Professor Elena Aleksandrovna Orobinskaya of the ICS Department.
The presentation was devoted to the problem of searching for and detecting criminally coloured textual information in (Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)) and Internet media. The approaches to the information search of text information on the Internet related to illegal activities were analysed, and the stages of creating a multi-lingual ontology ‘Illegal content presented in the Internet’ for English, Ukrainian, Kazakh and Russian languages were considered.
The department also actively co-operates with universities of Ukraine, namely:
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- Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics;
- V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University;
- “Lviv Polytechnic” National University;
- Ivan Franko National University of Lviv;
- National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”;
- National Aerospace University “Kharkov Aviation Institute” and others.
Such cooperation is carried out in several directions:
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- exchange of experience in training students;
- conclusion of agreements on cooperation and scientific and technical cooperation;
- participation of teachers in scientific and methodical seminars on actual problems of applied linguistics and intellectual systems;
- participation of students and teachers in joint research projects;
- participation of students and teachers in conferences of different levels based on these universities;
- undergoing internships by teachers of the relevant departments;
- undergraduates’ internships and other.
Our students’ international internships were repeatedly mentioned in the university newspaper “Polytechnic”.
In addition to working within the university’s walls, the department staff visit theatres, excursions and the like.
The department’s high scientific and intellectual potential allows it to successfully overcome the difficulties of the modern stage of the country’s development and look confidently into the future.