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Interests
- computational linguistics and natural language processing
- computational lexicons
- lexical-semantic nets
- semantic relations
- linguistic annotation
- information extraction
- corpus linguistics
Achievements
October 2012 Honorary Certificate “John Atanasoff” awarded by the President of Republic of Bulgaria for socially oriented projects in the field of Information Technologies.
July 2010 Prize in Computing, Department of Computer Science, University of Bath.
April 2010 First prize at the Lovelace Colloquium, Cardiff University, UK.
Education
2008-2012 PhD Student at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Topic: Automatic Recognition and Tagging of Compound Lexical Units in Bulgarian. Public defence: 26 July 2012. Supervisor: Prof. Svetla Koeva.
2007-2010 Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science with Mathematics. Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, United Kingdom.
2001-2002 Master’s Degree in Computational Linguistics, Department of Slavic Philologies, Sofia University.
1997-2001 Bachelor’s Degree in Bulgarian Philology, Department of Slavic Philologies, Sofia University.
1997-2000 Bulgarian Uniof of the Deaf: Sign Language Interpreter.
1992-1997 High School of Mathematics „Dr. Peter Beron“, Varna.
Experience
2015-until now Software developer at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (part-time, distant work).
2010-until now Assistant at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK, preparing teaching materials for students with disabilities (casual work, distant).
2011-2015 Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
2010-2011 Teaching Fellow and Researcher at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, United Kingdom.
2002-2004 Research Assistant at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
2001-2002 Sign Language Interpreter in educational projects for hearing-impaired youths.
2001-2002 Technical secretary: Video Centre at the Bulgarian Union of the Deaf.
Research projects
2017-2019 Semantic Networks. Project is funded by the Bulgarian National Innovations Fund.
2015-2017 IC1207 COST Action PARSEME: interdisciplinary scientific network devoted to the role of multi-word expressions (MWEs) in parsing.
2015-2017 IS1305 COST Action ENEL: European network of e-lexicography.
2014-2015 Logistic Monitoring and Analysis of Multilingual Content on the Internet. Project is funded by the National Innovations Fund, ИФ-00-07-90.
2012-2014 Multilingual Parallel Corpora – Supporting the Modern Language Technologies. National Project funded by the Programme for young researchers, National Research Fund.
2011-2013 Bulgarian National Corpus. Budgetary funding.
2011-2013 ATLAS: Applied Technology for Language-Aided CMS. International project funded by the EU Programme ICT PSP: CIP-ICT-PSP-2009-3.
2011-2013 CESAR: CEntral and South-east europeAn Resources. International project funded by the EU Programme ICT PSP.
2009-2011 Mathematical Logic and Computational Linguistics: Development and Permeation. Funded under the bilateral cooperation agreement between IBL and the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
2002-2003 Social Training for hearing Impaired Youths.
2001-2003 BALKANET: Design and Development of a Multilingual Balkan WordNet, IST-2000-29388.
Publications
Лесева, Св., Цв. Димитрова, М. Тодорова, Ив. Стоянова. Описание на отношенията между глаголните несвободни фрази и техните деривати в лингвистични ресурси. Сборник от конференцията Юбилейни Паисиеви четения 2018: 45 години филологии в Пловдивския университет, приета за печат: 2019, 1-17.
Leseva, S., Stoyanova, I., Todorova, M., Kukova, H.. A Theoretical Overview of Conceptual Frames and Semantic Restrictions on Frame Elements. Балканско езикознание, LVIII, 2, Институт за български език “Проф. Любомир Андрейчин”, БАН, 2019, ISSN:0324-1653.
Leseva, S., Stoyanova, I., Todorova, M., Kukova, H.. Frame Specialisation Motivated by Inter-Frame Relations in FrameNet. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Linguistic Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing, Cluj-Napoca, 18-20 November 2019, Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași, 2019, ISSN:1843-911X, 167-178.
Leseva, S., Stoyanova, I.. Enhancing Conceptual Description through Resource Linking and Exploration of Semantic Relations. Proceedings of the 10th Global WordNet Conference, Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej, 2019, ISBN:978-83-7493-108-3, 280-289.
Stoyanova, I., Leseva, S., Barbu Mititelu, V., Todorova, M., Cristescu, M.. Wrapping our Heads Around VMWEs and their Derivatives. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Linguistic Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing, Cluj-Napoca, 18-20 November 2019, Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași, 2019, ISSN:1843-911X, 153-165.
Stoyanova, I., Leseva, S.. A Structural Approach to Enhancing WordNet with Conceptual Frame Semantics. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Varna, Bulgaria, Sep 2–4 2019, 2019, ISBN:978-954-452-056-4, ISSN:2603-2813, 629-637.
Лесева, Св., Стоянова, Ив.. Субкатегоризационни отношения в сравнителен план между български и английски. Рада и приятели. Сборник в чест на проф. д-р Радка Влахова, Университетско издателство “Св. Климент Охридски”, 2019, ISBN:978-954-07-4700-2, 167-190.
Barbu Mititelu, V., I. Stoyanova, S. Leseva, M. Mitrofan, T. Dimitrova, M. Todorova. Hear about Verbal Multiword Expressions in the Bulgarian and the Romanian Wordnets Straight from the Horse’s Mouth. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019, DOI:10.18653/v1/W19-5102, 2-12.
Leseva, S., I. Stoyanova, M. Todorova. Classifying Verbs in WordNet by Harnessing Semantic Resources. Proceedings of the Third International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2018), The Institute for Bulgarian Language, 2018, ISSN:2367-5675, 115-125.
Stoyanova, I. Factors and Features Determining the Inheritance of Semantic Primes between Verbs and Nouns within WordNet. Proceedings of the Third International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2018), The Institute for Bulgarian Language, 2018, ISSN:2367-5675, 135-145.
Лесева, Св., Ив. Стоянова, Хр. Кукова, М. Тодорова. Интегриране на субкатегоризационна информация в релационната структура на УърдНет. Български език, 65, 2, 2018, ISSN:0005-4283, 11-40.
Лесева, Св., Ив. Стоянова. Трета международна научна конференция „Компютърната лингвистика в България“ – традиции и перспективи. Чуждоезиково обучение, 45, 6, 2018, 650-656.
Стоянова, Ив., М. Тодорова. Семантични релации: теоретични и приложни аспекти. Български език, 65, 2, 2018, ISSN:0005-4283, 77-99.
Ramisch, C., S. R. Cordeiro, A. Savary, V. Vincze, V. B. Mititelu, A. Bhatia, M. Buljan, M. Candido, P. Gantar, V. Giouli, T. Gungor, A. Hawwari, U. Inurrieta, J. Kovalevskaite, S. Krek, T. Lichte, C. Liebeskind, J. Monti, C. P. Escartin, B. QasemiZadeh, R. Ramisch, N. Schneider, I. Stoyanova, A. Vaidya, A. Walsh. Edition 1.1 of the PARSEME Shared Task on Automatic Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018, 222-240.
Savary, А., M. Candito, V. B. Mititelu, E. Bejček, F. Cap, S. Čéplö, S. R. Cordeiro, G. Eryiğit, V. Giouli, M. van Gompel, Y. HaCohen-Kerner, J. Kovalevskaitė, S. Krek, C. Liebeskind, J. Monti, C. P. Escartín, L. van der Plas, B. QasemiZadeh, C. Ramisch, F. Sangati, I. Stoyanova, V. Vincze. PARSEME multilingual corpus of verbal multiword expressions. Stella Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze (Eds.) Multiword expressions at length and in depth: Extended papers from the MWE 2017 workshop, Language Science Press, 2018, ISBN:978-3-96110-123-8.
Тодорова, М., Св. Лесева, Ив. Стоянова. Речник на съставните думи в българския език – развитие и перспективи. Доклади от Международната юбилейна конференция на Института за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“ (София, 15 – 16 май 2017 година), 1, Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, 2017, ISBN:978-954-924-899-9, 311-319.
I. Stoyanova, M. Yalamov, S. Koeva. Quotation Retrieval System for Bulgarian Media Content. Proceedings of CLIB 2016. Book Series: Proceedings of the International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria, pp. 28-37, 2016, ISSN: 2367-5578.
I. Stoyanova, S. Leseva, M. Todorova. Towards the Automatic Identification of Light Verb Constructions in Bulgarian. Proceedings of CLIB 2016. Book Series: Proceedings of the International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria, pp. 28-37, 2016, ISSN: 2367-5578.
Koeva, S., S. Leseva, I. Stoyanova, T. Dimitrova, M. Todorova. Automatic Prediction of Morphosemantic Relations. Proceedings of the Eighth Global Wordnet Conference, 2016, ISBN: 978-973-0-20728-6, pp. 168 – 176.
Stoyanova, I., Leseva, S., Koeva, S. Partial Syntactic Analysis of Bulgarian. In: Proceedings of the International Conference Paisievi Cheteniya 2015.
Stoyanova. I., Todorova, M. Verbal Multiword Expressions in the Bulgarian National Corpus. In: Proceedings of the International Conference Paisievi Cheteniya, 29–31 October 2015, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Leseva, S., M. Todorova, T. Dimitrova, B. Rizov, I. Stoyanova, S. Koeva. Automatic Classification of Wordnet Morphosemantic Relations. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing, The International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2015, ISBN: 978-954-452-033-5, pp. 59 – 64.
Stoyanova, I. Automatic Categorization of Multiword Еxpressions and Named Entities in Bulgarian. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference: Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria, 4 September 2014, Sofia: Institute for Bulgarian Language, 2014, ISSN: 2367-5578, pp. 40 – 49.
Leseva, Svetlozara, Ivelina Stoyanova, Borislav Rizov, Maria Todorova, Ekaterina Tarpomanova. Automatic Semantic Filtering of Morphosemantic Relations in WordNet. – В: Proceedings of CLIB 2014, Sofia: Institute for Bulgarian Language, 2014, pp. 14-22. ISBN: 2367-5578.
Lozanova, Slavina, Ivelina Stoyanova, Svetlozara Leseva, Svetla Koeva, Boian Savtchev. „Text Modification for Bulgarian Sign Language Users“ – В: Proceedins on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, Stroudsburg, PA: The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013, pp. 39-48. ISBN: 978-1-937284-64-0.
Stoyanova, Ivelina, Svetla Koeva, Svetlozara Leseva. „Wordnet-Based Cross-Language Identification of Semantic Relations.“ – В: Proceedings of the 4th Biennial InternationalWorkshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing, Stroudsburg, PA: The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013, pp. 119-128. ISBN: 978-1-937284-59-6.
Stoyanova, Ivelina, Svetlozara Leseva, Svetla Koeva. „Rule-based Clause Splitting for Bulgarian and English“. В: Pre-Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Lexicon Grammar, Faro: Universidade do Algarve, 2013.
Koeva, Svetla, Ivelina Stoyanova, Svetlozara Leseva, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Rositsa Dekova, and Ekaterina Tarpomanova (2012) “The Bulgarian National Corpus: Theory and Practice in Corpus Design” – Journal of Language Modelling, 2012, Vol. 0, No. 1, pp. 65-110.
Koeva, Svetla, Borislav Rizov, Ekaterina Tarpomanova, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Rositsa Dekova, Ivelina Stoyanova, Svetlozara Leseva, Hristina Kukova, and Angel Genov (2012) “Bulgarian-English Sentence- and Clause-Aligned Corpus” – In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-2), Lisbon, 29 November2012., Lisboa: Colibri, 2012, pp. 51-62.
Koeva, Svetla, Borislav Rizov, Ekaterina Tarpomanova, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Rositsa Dekova, Ivelina Stoyanova, Svetlozara Leseva, Hristina Kukova, and Angel Genov (2012) “Application of Clause Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation”. In: Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 12 July 2012, The Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2012 / SIGMT / SIGLEX Workshop, 2012, pp. 102-110.
Koeva, S., Dekova, R., Stoyanova, I., Rizov, B., Genov, A. (2012) “Bulgarian X-language Parallel Corpus”. In: Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12).
Koeva, S., Dekova, R., Stoyanova, S. “Applications of Bulgarian-English Parallel Corpus for Exploring Translational Asymmetries”, in Vučković, K., Bekavac, B. and Silberztein, M. (Еds.) Automatic Processing of Various Levels of Linguistic Phenomena: Selected Papers from the NooJ 2011 International Conference , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, pp. 237-259.