Assist. prof. Dr Valentina Stefanova

Senior assistant professor Department of Computational Linguistics Phone: 02 9792971 Email: valentina@dcl.bas.bg Address: Institute for Bulgarian Language, 52 Shipchenski Prohod St., Sofia 1113 Room 602

Interests

• diachronic linguistics,
• diachronic morphology,
• diachronic syntax,
• computational linguistics,
• lexical-semantic networks

Achievements

First Award at the National Student Conference for Students and Doctoral Students, Plovdiv, May 2012

Education and experience

2013 – 2017: Ph.D. Student, Department of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies, Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University

2014 – 2015: Master’s programme in Computational Linguistics and Internet Technologies in the Humanities, Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University

2011 – 2012: M.A., Master’s programme in Linguistics, Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University

2007 – 2011: B.A. in Bulgarian Studies (Philology), Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University

Experience

November 2017 – Present: Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (Bulgaria)

2015 – 2017: Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (Bulgaria)

Research projects

A Semantic Net Integrating a Broad Range of Semantic Relations (2017 – ongoing), a project funded under the Fundamental Research Programme of the National Science Fund (Н10/39), member of the research team

Semantic Resources and Language Processing Tools (BulNet and FrameNet) (2017 – ongoing), Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, member of the research team

Electronic Language Resources and Language Processing Tools (BulNet and FrameNet) (2015 – 2016), Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, member of the research team

Semantic Classification of the Adjectives in the Bulgarian WordNet; 2016 – 2017; Institute for Bulgarian Language; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Program for Career Development of Young Scientists; young scientist

Together Forward; 2015; Institute for Bulgarian Language; Ministry of Education and Science, Centre for Educational Integration of Children and Students from Ethnic Minorities (CEICSEM), priority Equal Access to Quality Education of Children and Students from Ethnic Minorities; participant

Informatics, Grammar, Lexicography; 2012-2015; Sofia University; European Social Fund – OP Human Resources Development 2007 – 2013; Support for the Development of PhD students and PhD graduates, Post-doctoral students, and Young Scientists, 2012; participant

Articles in journals

Стефанова, В., Цв. Димитрова. Прилагателното име в Българския уърднет. [Adjectives in the Bulgarian WordNet]. – Български език, 4, 2016, ISSN:0005-4283, 1-15

Стефанова, В. Класификационен модел на прилагателните имена в Българския уърднет. [Classification model of adjectives in the Bulgarian WordNet]. – Светът е слово, словото е свят, 2016, ISSN: 1312 – 0484, 51-57

Conference papers

Dimitrova, T., V. Stefanova. Adjectives in WordNet: Semantic Issues. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference Linguistics Resources and Tools for Processing the Romanian Language (ConsILR-2016), Faculty for Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, 2016, ISSN:1843-911X, 131-141