Address: 199034 Saint-Petersburg, Universitetskaya nab, 11. Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg State University
Phone: 324- 88- 37
E-mail: bernikova@mail.ru
Date of Birth: October 24, 1976
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Scientific Degree: PhD in linguistics
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Current Position:
- Associate Professor of the Arabic Philology Department, Faculty of Asian and African Studies
- Coordinator of the Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Social Processes
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Education:
- Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Arabic Philology Department, 1998 – 2001. Postgraduate course. PhD thesis “Phonetics of the Arabian Peninsula Dialects”
- Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Arabic Philology Department, 1993 – 1998. Graduated.
- 2006-2007 Stanford University, USA, Training program “The use of information technologies in Management and Teaching”
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Research interests:
The Arabic Language, ICT, corpus linguistics, artificial inelegance, innovative language teaching methods,
machine translation, dialectology.
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International Activity:
- 2009 Stockholm University, Department of Oriental languages
- 2006-2008 Stanford University, USA
- 2004 Germany, Berlin Free University, Arabic Philology Department
- 1997-1998 Cairo University, Egypt, Philology Department
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Inventions:
“Software for Arabic text e-learning, translation and recognition”
Certificate of the official software registration 2007611711 at 23.04.2007; Russian Federation IP Agency.
Books:
- Redkin O.I., Bernikova O.A. Arabic Grammar. Introductory course. St-Petersburg, 2013. 160 p.
- Arabic grammar in tables and diagrams. St-Petersburg, 2008. 144 p.
Articles (a short list):
- Methods for an Arabic Optical Character Recognition // Stochastic Optimization in Informatics, 2013. —9 — № 2. — P.p. 3-20.
- Problems of the Arabic OCR: New Attitudes // PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2013. — P. 777-782.
- Arabic E-learning and Computer Tools // PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE — CSREA Press, USA, — 2012. — P. 366-371.
- On the Optical Character Recognition and Machine Translation Technology in Arabic: Problems and Solutions // PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE — Las Vegas Nevada, USA, — 2011. — P. 460 с., 861-868.
- The Arabic Language and Innovative Methods of Teaching and Linguistic Research // La recherche scientifique en science humaines dans les pays arabes / Arabic Language and the Internet, 2011. — Vol. Serie 6, — № 20. — P. 37-48.
- Strategy of innovation in Classical University // Reports of the International Scientific Conference “Strategies for innovation development of the North-West: experience and problems”. St-Petersburg, 2009. Pp.350-362.
- Problems of the Arabic language formalization // Proceedings of the conference “Oriental studies and dialog of civilizations, Saint-Petersburg, 2009.
- Innovative methods of oriental languages distant learning teaching // E-learning technologies, Moscow 2007. Pp. 13-21.
- Oriental languages distance learning system // Saint-Petersburg State University, N 17, 2007.
- Vocal structure of the Modern Standard Arabic //Vostokovedeniye, 27, St-Petersburg, 2006. Pp.23-38.
- Applying of technical equipment in teaching of the Arabic language (the article prepared together with prof. Redkin O.I.) // Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg, 2006. P.124.
- MA course: origination and tendencies of the development // Saint-Petersburg State University, N 26-27, 2005.