Abstract:
The role of national modules in the development of the iSybislaw (Database of World Slavic
Linguistic Studies), which has the functions of information retrieval and research computer linguistic
system is considered. Particular attention is paid to the prospects for the development of
the Ukrainian module of this system, which the team of researches from the Institute of the
Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine create since 2012. The
approaches to solving problems of variability and synonymy of Ukrainian linguistic terms, their
equivalence to terms in other Slavic languages in the language of keywords as information retrieval
language of iSybislaw, the possibilities to optimize the search for information in the system
and the formation of the computer thesaurus of modern linguistic terms are presented.
Comparison of the created Ukrainian module of iSybislaw with the basic vocabulary of
Polish linguistic terms proves the necessity of finding criteria for the determination of equivalence
between Ukrainian terms and other Slavic linguistic terms without distorting the real picture
of their functioning in the Ukrainian scientific tradition. The interconnection of the iSybislaw
system with other Slavic Internet resources will enable for its users to get acquainted with
the wider and deeper time, genre and territorial perspective of studying particular Slavic language,
as well as the state of Slavic studies in general in a certain national linguistic tradition.
