Ivelina Stoyanova has graduated in 2001 from the Bulgarian Philology Programme and in 2002 from the master’s programme in computational linguistics at Sofia University. Further, she has studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Bath, United Kingdom, where she graduated in 2010. In 2021 she defended her PhD dissertation at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language. Her PhD thesis is titled Automatic Identification and Tagging of Multiword Expressions in Bulgarian.
Currenty, she works at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, and takes part in many projects of the Department, among which the Multilingual Image Corpus (MIC 21).