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My interests in the area of Computational Linguistics started in 2001 when I was employed to build and maintain a web-site for the International Project
BALRIC-Ling which was funded by the European Commission. The aim of this project was to arise the awareness of the people on the Balkans about language technologies and language resourses as the Balkans has been isolated for many years. |
| The project finished successfully and in result many computer applications for language processing and corpora development have been done. During that project I had the opportunity to participate in the organization and to attend the International Conference on Conceptual Structures 2002. |
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| Later in 2002 I won a scholarship by the European Community student mobility program Leonardo da
Vinchi, on a project for Processing Vast Arrays of Multilingual Information. |
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This practice was for 5 months in the New University of Lisbon. During this project my task was connected with Parallel
Text Alignment, Extraction of Multiword Relevant Expressions and
Concordances. We had to use already created applications by the people working in the department and
develop them to work properly for Bulgarian language. |
| In result of our job some paper were issued and all of us (the students who participated the practice) we attended RANLP 2003 conference which is one of the biggest and high quality conferences for Language processing, not only in Europe but all over the world. On this conference we made a poster presentation about our work and the results we have obtained.
Now I'm interested in Information Retrieval and more specificly LSA. Also in Language processing and Speach recognition. As a member of the Lab on Speach RXSecognition I hope that will have the possibility to get aquaintant with it's specific theory and why not to be involved in the development of some new applications. As a possible topic for my resarch work in UEC I see as well experiments concerning the weight of the terms in a text. This work will be very halpful in the area of Text Summarization in order to improve the quality of the summary we want to obtain from a large text. |
