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Assist. prof. Dr Hristina Kukova



Department of Computational Linguistics

Phone: +359 2 / 979 2961

Email: hristina@dcl.bas.bg

Address:
Institute for Bulgarian Language
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia (Bulgaria)

Research interests

  • Lexical-semantic networks
  • Argument structure
  • Syntax-semantic interface
  • Frames
  • Selectional restrictions

Education and professional experience

2022 – ongoing: Senior assistant professor, Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

2022 – Ph.D. in Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language

2014 – 2022: philologist, Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language

2012 – 2014: assistant professor, Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language

2009 – 2012: researcher, Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language

2002 – 2003: Masters program “Computational Linguistics. Internet Technologies in Humanities”, Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University

1998 – 2002: Bulgarian philology, Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University

1997 – 2001: Russian philology, Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University

Specialisations

2012-2013 – specialization in Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

August 2012 – European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2012), Opole University, Poland

9th August 2010 – 20th August 2010 – European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2010) Copenhagen University, Denmark;

July – August, 2000 – Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia;

Research projects

BulNet – Lexical-semantic Network of Bulgarian Language (2005 – 2010), Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, budget-financed project, participant

Mathematical Logic and Computational Linguistics: Development and Mutual Permeation (2009 – 2011), financed by Operational Program “Human Resources Development” 2007-2013 of the European Social Fund and Republic of Bulgaria, program “Support for Doctoral, Postdoctoral and Specializing Researchers and Young Scholars” (G051PO001-3.3.04/27), participant

Bulgarian National Corpus (2010 – 2013), Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, budget-financed project, participant

CESAR: Central and South-east European Resources (2011 – 2013), international project, financed by the European Commission CIP-ICT-PSP (CIP-ICT-PSP.2010.6.1), participant

Electronic Language Resources and Programs for Their Processing (BulNet and FrameNet) (2011 – 2013), Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, budget-financed project, participant

Integrating New Practices and Knowledge in the Computational Linguistics Teaching (2012 – 2014), financed by Operational Program “Human Resources Development” 2007-2013 of the European Social Fund and Republic of Bulgaria, program “Support for Doctoral, Postdoctoral and Specializing Researchers and Young Scholars”, (BG051PO001-3.3.06-0022-C0001), participant, coordinator

Glottodrama (2012-2014), international project of the Linguistic Research Laboratory “Edizioni Novacultur” for foreign-language teaching involving theatrical practices, Lifelong Learning Program of EU, participant

Electronic Language Resources and Programs for Their Processing (BulNet and FrameNet), Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, budget-financed project, participant

Semantic Network with a Wide Range of Semantic Relations; 2017 – 2020; Financed by the Fundamental Research Program of the Scientific Research Fund (Н10/39); participant

Semantic Resources and Language Processing Tools (BulNet and FrameNet); 2017 – 2020; Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, budget-financed project, participant

Multilingual Image Corpus (MIC 21); financed on the European Language Grid project by Horizon 2020 program for research and innovations No. 825627 (ELG), 2021, participant

The Ontology of the Stative Situations in the Models of Language: a Contrastive Analysis of Bulgarian and Russian Languages, financed by the Scientific Research Fund; participant

Enriching the Semantic Network Wordnet with Conceptual Frames, financed by the Scientific Research Fund; participant

The Written Word Remains. Write Correctly! – a project and educational initiative of the Institute for Bulgarian Language (2018 – up to now), participant

Participation in Organising and Programme Committees

5th edition of “Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages”, Sofia, Bulgaria (FASSBL 5), , 18 – 20 October 2006, member of the local organizing committee

51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria ка (ACL 2013), 4 – 9 August 2013, member of the local organizing committee

International Conference SemRel 2012 – LREC Istanbul, Turkey, member of the program committee

International Conference “Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria CLIB 2014”, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2014, member of the organizing committee

International Conference “Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria CLIB 2016”, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2016, member of the organizing committee

International Conference “Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria CLIB 2018”, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018, member of the organizing committee

International Conference “Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria CLIB 2020”, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2020, member of the organizing committee

Annual International Conference of the Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2020, member of the organizing committee

International Conference “Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria CLIB 2022”, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2022, member of the organizing committee

Annual International Conference of the Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2022, member of the organizing committee, editor

Participation in educational programs

2018 – ongoing: The Written Word Remains. Write Correctly! – an educational initiative of the Institute for Bulgarian Language

Chapters in edited volumes

Овсянникова, М., Х. Кукова. Предикаты восприятия в болгарском и русском языках и их сентенциальные актанты. Онтология на ситуациите за състояние – лингвистично моделиране. Съпоставително изследване за български и руски, Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, 2022, ISBN:978-619-245-256-8, DOI:10.7546/STONTBgRu2022.16, 26, 458-484.

Лесева, Св., Хр. Кукова, Ив. Стоянова. Предикатите за състояние в съвременните лингвистични теории (I). Български език, 68, 3, 2021, ISSN:0005-4283, DOI:10.47810/BL.68.21.03.09, 120-134.

Лесева, Св., Хр. Кукова, Ив. Стоянова. Предикатите за състояние в съвременните лингвистични теории (II). Български език, 68, 4, 2021, ISSN:0005-4283, DOI:10.47810/BL.68.21.03.11, 135-152.

Leseva, S., I. Stoyanova, M. Todorova, H. Kukova. Putting Pieces Together: Predicate-Argument Relations and Selectional Preferences. Koeva, S. (complier) Towards a Semantic Network Enriched with a Variety of Semantic Relations. Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Sofia, 2020. ISBN 987-619-245-057-1. DOI: 10.7546/TSN.2020, 49-87.

Тодорова М., Х. Кукова, С. Лесева. Семантично анотирани ресурси за български език – БулСемКор. – В: Езикови ресурси и технологии за български език. София: Академично издателство „Проф. Марин Дринов“, 2014, с. 80 – 104. ISBN: 978-954-322-797-6.

Кукова Х. Лингвистични конвенции при анотация на прилагателните, – В “Българският семантично анотиран корпус”, София, 2010, с. 108 – 119, ISBN 978-954-779-124-4.

Кукова Х. Лингвистични конвенции при анотация на наречията, – В “Българският семантично анотиран корпус”, София, 2010, с. 119 – 126, ISBN 978-954-779-124-4.

Articles in journals and conference proceedings

Кукова, Х., М. Овсянникова. Съпоставителен анализ на глаголите виждам – видя и видеть – увидеть и комплементите им в български и руски език.  В: Доклади от Международната годишна конференция на Института за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“. София 2022, 248–256.

Овсянникова, М., Х. Кукова. Сентенциальные аргументы при предикатах зрительного и слухового восприятия в болгарском и русском языках. В: Сборник тезисов конференции „Грамматические процессы и системы в синхронии и диахронии“, Институт русского языка им. В.В. Виноградова. Москва 2022, 60-62.

Овсянникова, М., Х. Кукова. Оформление подчиненных предложений при болгарских глаголах виждам – видя и их русских эквивалентах. В: Тезисы 50-й Международной научной филологической конференции имени Людмилы Алексеевны Вербицкой. Санкт Петербург 2022, 575-576.

Leseva, S., H. Kukova, I. Stoyanova. Towards a Classification of Stative Verbs in view of Corpus Data. Jazykovedný časopis, 72, 2, 2021, ISSN:0021-5597, DOI:10.2478/jazcas-2021-0035, 383-393.

Кукова, Х., С. Лесева, И. Стоянова. Концептуальная рамка исследования предикатов класса состояния в русском и болгарском языках. Славянский мир: общность и многообразие, Москва: Институт славяноведения РАН, 2021, ISSN:2619-0869, DOI:10.31168/2619-0869.2021.2.05, 211-216.

Кукова, Х. Глаголи за комуникация, фреймови елементи и семантични ограничения (върху синонимни множества от Булнет). Сборник доклади от Международната конференция на Института за български език – БАН (София, 2020), ISSN 2683-118X (print) ISSN 2683-1198 (online), т. 2, 233-241.

Leseva, S., I. Stoyanova, M. Todorova, H. Kukova. A Semantic Description of the Combinability between Verbs and Nouns (on Material from Bulgarian and English). Чуждоезиково обучение 47 (2), 2020, 115-128.

Leseva, S., I. Stoyanova, M. Todorova, H. Kukova. A Theoretical Overview of Conceptual Frames and Semantic Restrictions on Frame Elements. Балканско езикознание/Linguistique Balkanique, LVIII, 2, 2019, ISSN:0324-1653, 172-186.

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.

Кукова, Х. Семантика и синтактична функционалност при някои глаголи за перцепция. Рада и приятели. Сборник в чест на 65-годишнината на проф. д-р Радка Влахова, София: Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2019, ISBN:978-954-07-4700-2, 202-211.

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.

Koeva, Svetla, Borislav Rizov, Ekaterina Tarpomanova, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Rositsa Dekova, Ivelina Stoyanova, Svetlozara Leseva, Hristina Kukova, and Angel Genov. Application of Clause Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation. – В: Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 12 July 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea: The Association for Computational Linguistics: Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 2012, с. 102-110. ISBN: 978-1-937284-38-1. (pdf

Koeva, Svetla, Borislav Rizov, Ekaterina Tarpomanova, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Rositsa Dekova, Ivelina Stoyanova, Svetlozara Leseva, Hristina Kukova, and Angel Genov. Bulgarian-English Sentence- and Clause-Aligned Corpus.. – В: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities (ACRH-2), Lisbon, 29 November 2012, Лисабон: Colibri: Lisboa, 2012, с. 51-62. ISBN: ISBN 978-989-689-273-9. (pdf)

Koeva, S., S. Leseva, B. Rizov, E. Tarpomanova, T. Dimitrova, H. Kukova, M. Todorova. Design and Development of the Bulgarian Sense-Annotated Corpus. In Proceedings of the Third International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CILC), 7-9 April 2011, Valencia, Spain.

Koeva S., Leseva S., Tarpomanova E., Rizov B., Dimitrova T., Kukova H. Bulgarian Sense-Annotated Corpus — Results and Achievements, сборник статии от Седмата международна конференция „Формални подходи към южнославянските и балканските езици“, с. 41-49.

Кукова, Х. Семантични особености на глаголите за перцепция – сп. Български език 57 (2010), 1, ISSN 0005-4283, стр. 88-96.

Кукова, Х. Подходи за автоматично отстраняване на семантична многозначност – сп. “Български език” 2006, кн. 2, стр. 75 – 84.

Кукова, Х., М. Тодорова, Е. Търпоманова. Структурна и семантична обусловеност на глаголите в SYNTEXT” – Балканска конференция на младите учени, Пловдив, 2005 г.

Лесева С., А. Копринарова, Х. Кукова. Семантични ограничения при глаголи, субкатегоризиращи малки изречения”(съавтор) – научни трудове от Юбилейни Паисиеви четения – международен славистичен симпозиум, Пловдив, 2003 г., стр. 97-106.

Кукова, Х. Съставните топоними в българския език – сборник доклади от конференцията “Как с думи се правят светове”, СУ, София, 2003 г., стр. 518-526.

Кукова, Х. Некоторые особенности фразеологических единиц с названием животного в русском и болгарском языках – сборник доклади от Осмия международен симпозиум МАПРЯЛ, Велико Търново, 2002 г., стр. 110-114.

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