Department of Applied and Experimental Linguistics
Head of department 
Professor Rodmonga Kondrat'evna Potapova, Ph.D., Academician of the International Informatization Academy.
The staff of the chair includes outstanding scientists among which are Professor R.K. Potapova, PhD, ScD; Professor A.N.Sobakin; PhD, ScD, Professor M.V.Khitina; PhD, ScD, Professor A.A. Kharlamov, PhD, ScD; Professor M.M. Makovsky, PhD, ScD; Professor V.R. Zhenilo; PhD, ScD. All in all, the teaching staff of the Chair of Applied and Experimental Linguistics includes 10 PhDs, ScDs and Professors, and 3 PhDs and associate professors.
During the recent period of time a complex of disciplines was developed that is characterized by integrity and singularity. It is specified by the principal purpose of the program - the preparation of specialists who are able to formulate and solve problems of automated abstracting and text annotating, developing artificial languages, solving linguistic problems of artificial intelligence and machine translation, automatization of lexicographic processes, creation of terminological dictionaries and lexical data banks, modeling of interlingual relations types, problems of linguistic policy, unification and standardization of terminology and elaboration of terminological systems, automated recognition of spoken language, speaker identification and verification by spoken language and written speech, etc.
The complexity of the task results in the singularity of the disciplines taught to students. The well-balanced combination of mathematical cycle disciplines, information and computer science, programming and disciplines related to applied aspects of linguistics makes the work of the chair interdisciplinary.
Scientific research of the chair is defined as non-ordinary multifunctional direction in theoretical and applied linguistics involving modern informational technologies, state-of-the-art software, database management systems, modern text analysis systems, software tools for examining speech signal, speech synthesis, modern computer-mediated teaching systems, new methods of creating linguistic databases for automated dictionaries, storage and retrieval systems, as well as systems of recognition and understanding of speech, identification and verification of speakers by speech and voice.
The chair is involved in a range of scientific research projects financed by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Ministry of Education and Science, etc.
Potapova R.K. is the author of more than 400 scientific publications: fundamental works in the area of Germanic philology (e.g. “Syllable Phonetics of Germanic Languages” (Moscow, 1986)); “Peculiarities of German Pronunciation” (Moscow, 1991); “Basics of Theoretical Phonetics of German” (Moscow, 1988); “Dictionary of German Pronunciation: Especially Difficult Cases of Words with Mobile Stress” (Moscow, 1994)), as well as in the area of Applied and Theoretical Linguistics (e.g., “Driving Robot by Voice” (Moscow, 1989, 2005); “Introduction to Linguacybernetics” (Moscow, 1990); “Mystery of the Modern Centaur: Human-Machine Interaction by Speech” (Moscow, 1992, 2004); “Natural Language Processing in Science and Industry” (Moscow, 1992); “Electronic Encyclopaedia for Forensic Phonetics Experts (Linguistic Support)” (Moscow, Estra, 1998-1999; CD-ROM); “Speech: Communication, Information, Cybernetics” (Moscow, 1997, 2003, 2005), “New Informational Technologies and Linguistics” (Moscow, 2002, 2003, 2005, etc.), “Kommunikative Sprechtaetigkeit. Russland und Deutschland im Vergleich” (with co-author; Koeln – Weimar – Wien: Boehlau Verlag, 2011). Potapova R.K. is the Chairperson of the Specialized Dissertation Council in the field of Romanic and Germanic philology; a member of the editorial staff for the magazine “Social and Human sciences in Russia and Abroad” of the RAS ISISS; a member of the editorial staff for the international magazine “Forensic Linguistics: Speech, Language and the Law” published in Birmingham (England) etc.
Potapova R.K. is Head of the Institute of Applied and Mathematical Linguistics; a winner of several state scientific grants of the RAS “Outstanding scientists of Russia”; a member of the Acoustic Council of the RAS; a board member in the Russian Acoustic Society and the chairperson of the subpanel “Acoustic problems in Applied Linguistics”; an EMA presidium member (focus on training of graduates in “Linguistics and new information technologies”, specialization “Theoretical and applied linguistics”); a member of the HAC of the RF; a member of the International Association on speech communication; a member of the International Society on forensic phonetics; the vice-president of the International Society on phonetics sciences (with Centers in the USA and Germany) - the executive secretary for the region “Russia”, the chairperson of the board of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) for coordination of researches in the field of speech communication in the Eastern Europe, Head of the Centre for Fundamental and Applied Speechology in MSLU. Professor emeritus of the Kazakh State University of the world’s languages and international relations. She is also awarded with the American Biographic Society (ABS) Gold Medal for contribution in science and education. Her name is put in the ABS publications “5000 names of the world’s leaders”, “World’s outstanding leaders”, etc.
The chair cooperates actively with the University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), the State University of Patras (Greece), the Minsk State Linguistic University (Belarus), etc. Chief specialists of the chair supervise scientific works of postgraduates, post-doctoral and degree-seeking students, and trainees.
For many years the chair has been the organizer of the international scientific conference “Speech and Computer” (SPECOM) (in cooperation with SPIIRAS, St.-Petersburg) which is a very popular event in the scientific world.
The chair hosts student scientific societies:
• “Medialinguistics and new information technologies” (supervisor: Professor R.K. Potapova, PhD, ScD);
• “Problems of spoken discourse perception” (supervisor: Professor M.V. Khitina, PhD, ScD);
• “Linguistic and acoustic analysis of spoken language (for forensic purposes)” (supervisors: Professor R.K. Potapova, PhD, ScD; Professor V.R. Zhenilo, PhD, ScD; Professor M.V. Khitina, PhD, ScD).