G.S.Tseytin. Features of Natural Languages in Programming Languages. Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, IV, North Holland, 1973, 215-222

A number of features is discussed, each discovered in syntax or semantics of natural languages and considered or introduced (possibly independently) in programming languages, including: phrase-structure grammars and the balance of syntactic and anaphoric links, recursive definition of semantics, need of defaults and preferred parsings, declarative vs imperative, gradual elimination of jumps and assignments.

G.S.Tseytin. From Logicism to Proceduralism (an autobiographical account). In: Algorithms in Modern Mathematics and Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 122, Springer, 1981, 390-396

An account of how experience in both design of special-purpose computer languages and study of natural language semantics led to abandonment of plans for mapping NL semantics into a kind of predicate logic, while direct manipulation of names (rather than the entities they allegedly have to represent) turned out to be more successful.

G.S.Tseytin. On relationship between natural language and formal model. (In Russian.) In: Voprosy kibernetiki, Obshchenie s EVM na estestvennom yazyke, Moscow, 1982, 20-34
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It is argued that a mathematical model of a language should not attempt to describe the language as a whole (especially when it comes to semantics), but that there should be an open collection of partial models each representing a small fragment of the language (words or clusters of related words, small problem domains, grammatical paradigms, etc.) Interfaces between such fragments can be defined in terms of selection of an item in an environment by name, the name being supplied by one component, and the environment by other. Comparison with various technological "languages", including programming languages, is extensively used.

G.S.Tseytin. Programming with association nets (English translation here). In: EVM v proektirovanii i proizvodstve, vyp.2 (G.V.Orlovsky, ed.),"Mashinostroenie", Leningr. otdelenie, Leningrad, 1985, 16-48

A rather extensive description of a formalism to support open-ended systems (as needed for AI and NL, with identification by name playing the key role) and a simple implementation on IBM-like mainframes. The data structures are association nets (conceptual graphs), the system features modularity (in an object-oriented style) and object "merging" (a remote analogue of PROLOG unification). Some examples are given.

G.S.Tseytin. On relationship between mathematical and common thinking. (In Russian.) Izvestiya AN SSSR, ser. Tekhnicheslaya kibernetika, 1987, no. 2, 193-196

It is argued that normal thinking cannot be regarded as a derivative or a special case of mathemathical thinking, and therefore its study cannot be based on mapping to predicate logic but may require independent mathematical constructs.

M.M.Zheleznyakov, T.N.Nevleva, I.M.Novitskaya, L.N.Smirnova, G.S.Tseytin. An attempt of building a "text -> reality" model using association nets (English translation here). In: Mashinnyi fond russkogo yazyka: predproektnye issledovaniya. Institut russkogo yazyka, Moskva, 1988, 140-167

An approach is described to meaning extraction in a restricted problem domain (with association nets as an instrument), and some linguistic implications are discussed.

G.S.Tseytin. Towards unit-based programming (in Russian). Programmirovanie, 1990, no.1, 78-92

The quest for modularity (never fully achieved) is represented as the pricipal driving force behind the development of programming language concepts.

G.S.Tseytin. On some mechanisms of representation of meaning in natural languages. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 65-66, pp.5-12 (1996). (First presented to LPAR'91, a conference on logic programming.)

A survey of the approach to natural language semantics via restricted problem domains, and of the linguistic phenomena covered by this approach.

G.S.Tseytin. Bottom-up and top-down approaches to text analysis. ELSNET goes East and EMACS Workshop on Integration of Language and Speech (November 9-11, 1995, Moscow, Russia), Proceedings. Moscow, 1996, pp.210-214.

A balance of the two approaches is needed in processing of both speech and written text.

G.S. Tseytin. Association Nets: An Alternative Formalization of Common Thinking. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1234, pp.385-398, Springer, 1997.
Invited talk at the Symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science Yaroslavl, Russia, July 6 - 12, 1997.

Association nets described in previous papers now presented in a form close to traditional mathematical logic. A revised version with computer-tested examples is here.
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G.S. Tseytin. A formalization of reasoning not derived from standard predicate logic.
Submitted for publication in a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier Science.

A system of formal reasoning, termed object-oriented logic (OOL), is presented which is based on the logical concepts present in modern computer programming and not related directly to predicate logic. It is expected to be efficient in deriving simple conclusions when information is centered around objects and in combining independently designed subsystems. Some examples are discussed, as well as relation to other systems for logic and/or programming.
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