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Senior assistant professor Phone: 02 9792971 Email: valentina@dcl.bas.bg Address: |
Interests
- diachronic linguistics
- computational linguistics and natural language processing
- linguistic annotation
- information extraction
- corpus linguistics
- lexical-semantic networks
Achievements
Young Scholar Award of the Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin, Sofia, May 2022
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
Professional 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)
Specialisations
2016 – one-week specialisation at the Summer School of Digital Humanities (Hisar, Bulgaria, 05-11.09.2016), part of the research program “Technological Ecosystems in Humanities” at the University Complex of Humanities of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski.
2017-2018 – specialisation in the project BG05M2OP001-2-009-0005 “Modern Paleo-Slavic and Media Studies”, funded by the Operational Programme “Science and Education for Smart Growth” for the period July 2017 – November 2018.
Research projects
Artificial Intelligence Data Kit 2030 (AID 2030), march – april 2023, supported by the European Language Equality; participant
Assessing reading literacy and comprehension of early graders in Bulgaria and Italy, 2023 – 2025, a bilateral project between the Institute for Bulgarian Language at BAS and the Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli”, Italy; participant
Enriching the Semantic Network Wordnet with Conceptual Frames, 2020 – 2023, financed by the Scientific Research Fund; member of the research team
The Ontology of the Stative Situations in the Models of Language: a Contrastive Analysis of Bulgarian and Russian Languages, 2020 – 2022, financed by the Scientific Research Fund; member of the research team
Multilingual Image Corpus (MIC 21), European Union’s Horizon 2020 Re- search and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 825627 (ELG), 2021; participant
Curated Multilingual Language Resources for CEF AT Action, CURLICAT, 2020 – 2022, EU – CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) / Telecommunications sector; participant
Multilingual Resources for CEF.AT in the legal domain, MARCELL, 2018 – 2021, EU – CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) / Telecommunications sector; participant
A Semantic Net Integrating a Broad Range of Semantic Relations (2017 – 2020), 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 – 2020), Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, member of the research team
CEF Automated Translation for the EU Council Presidency; 2017 – 2018; Connecting Europe Facility of the EU Commission, the Telecommunications Programme, 2016-EU-IA-0121 I; participant
Modern Paleoslavic and Medieval Studies” (BG05М2OP001-2-009-0005); Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”; 2017 – march 2019; financed under the Operational Program “Science and Education for Smart Growth”, co-financed by the European Union through the European Structural and Investment Funds; participant – postdoc
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
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
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; young scientist
Membership in oragnization and programme committees
International Conference “Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria” (CLIB), Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018, 2020, 2022
Forum “Bulgarian Grammar”, Sofia, Bulgaria; 2022, 2023
Participation in educational programs
2016 – ongoing: The Written Word Remains. Write Correctly! – an educational initiative of the Institute for Bulgarian Language
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
