[1] In 1965 she graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in Finno-Ugric languages.
Her main fields of research have been Estonian terminology, dictionaries, lexicology, language planning, and the development of jargon in many disciplines.
From 1977 until 1984, she taught a course in terminology at Tartu State University and in 1984 and 1986 at the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute in language planning.
She has worked to clarify the terminology of patenting, construction, pedagogy, and linguistics, as well as professional titles.
She has also edited, among other things, volumes three and four of Vene-eesti sõnaraamatu (Russian–Estonian Dictionary).