Seminar Translator 2018 for the EU Council Presidency
The seminar Translator 2018 will present the system Translator for the EU Council Presidency – a tool for machine translation specifically aimed at facilitating the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council in 2018. The system Translator can be used in online applications for machine translation, available for various browsers and mobile apps, as well as desktop applications for computer-aided translation…
Dr Zornitsa Kozareva received the John Atanasoff Award
The John Atanasoff Award has been presented by the President of Bulgaria since 2003 to young Bulgarian researchers in the field of computer sciences. In 2016 there were 57 nominations in four categories. Dr Zornitsa Kozareva received the John Atanasoff Award on 4th October 2016 (on the anniversary from the birth of John Atanasoff) for her achievements in the field…
Second International Conference “Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria”
The Second CLIB Conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on September 9, 2016. It is organised by the team of the Department of Computational Linguistics at the Institute for Bulgarian Language in conjunction with colleagues from Sofia University and Plovdiv University. CLIB is an international conference that aims to foster the NLP community in Bulgaria and further the cooperation…
Seven Interesting Applications of the Bulgarian National Corpus
On 16th May 2016, in auditorium 147 of the Main Building of Sofia University, within the framework of the Linguistic Seminar at the Bulgarian Language Department of the Faculty of Slavic Philology, Prof. Svetla Koeva, Dr Tsvetana Dimitrova, Dr Maria Todorova, and Dr Svetlozara Leseva from the Department of Computational Linguistics of the Institute for Bulgarian Language presented a lecture…
The Seminar “European Language Resource Coordination” has a Great Success in Sofia
On 18th March 2016 at the Home of Europe in Sofia, 124 Georgi Rakovski St. the seminar European Language Resource Coordination was held, attended by about 150 representatives from the public administration, government institutions and companies in the field of professional translations, information and language technologies and publishing. After the greetings of Mr. Ognian Zlatev, Head of the Representation of…
Language Resources and Technologies for Bulgarian language
Svetla Koeva (ed.). Language Resources and Technologies for Bulgarian language. Acad. Publ. House “Marin Drinov”, Sofia, 2014, 312 p. ISBN: 978-954-322-797-6. The book Language Resources and Technologies for Bulgarian language contains papers and articles that present some of the results obtained within two international projects – CESAR: Central and Southern European language resources and ATLAS: Applied Technology for Language-Aided…
The project “Integrating New Practices and Knowledge in Undergraduate and Graduate Courses in Computational Linguistics” was successfully complete
The project is funded by European Social Fund and the Republic of Bulgaria. Human Resource Development Operational Programme 2007-2013. The target group of the project “Integrating New Practices and Knowledge in Undergraduate and Graduate Courses in Computational Linguistics” comprises PhD students, postdocs, postgraduates and young scientists from the Institute of Bulgarian Language (IBL) and the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics…
(Български) Българският WordNet
Towards mid-September 20153 the Bulgarian WordNet (BulNet) has approximated 82,100 synonym sets (synsets), which include over 188,200 lexical items. By comparison, large spelling dictionaries comprise between 60,000 and 70,000 words. The number of semantic, morpho-semantic and extralinguistic relations that link pairs of synsets in BulNet exceeds 177,250. The Bulgarian WordNet is distributed by ELDA (Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency).
