VMs: QRe: On Sukhotin

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

12/09/02 22:33:38, Luis Vélez <legal1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Sukhotin is no linguist.

I don't think he was either.

>Perhaps he is/was a mathematical linguist? One paper ("Optimization
>algorithms of deciphering as the elements of a linguistic theory") by a
>Boris Viktorivich Sukhotin was included in the12th International Conference
>On Computational Linguistics: COLING '88 (Budapest, 22-27 August 1988). He
>appears to have participated as well. Is this our guy? Could he still be
>alive?

Vitkorovich. Sukhotin is a fairly common name in Russia. But it must
be the same fellow. Last I saw from him dated from, if memory serves,
1974. "Problemy mezhzvesdnoy svjazi" (I think I stuffed up somewhere,
it's late, I'm tired -- anyway: "Problems of interstellar communication")

I am sure there is an English translation of some of his stuff in
our archives. I should know: I did the translations! I just saw them
the other day in a remote corner of my hard disk, logical drive S:
(I think).

Frogguy