PUBLICATIONS
Questions in Monologues: an Analysis grounded on ISO. Purificacao Silvano, Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Mariana Damova. In: Linguistics. De Gruyter, 2024.
Flood Simulation and Forecasting for Sustainable Planning of Response in Municipalities. Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pessek, Hristo Hristov, Plamen Chernev. International Water Conference, Barcelona, Spain, October 2024. Best Presentation Award.
ISME-HYDRO: An Intelligent Web-based Workflow for Sustainable Exploitation of Dams and Rivers Based on Earth Observation and AI. Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pessek, Hristo Hristov, Hristo Enchev, Rumen Stoykov. 2024 Canadian Dam Association Annual Conference “Navigating the future together”, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 2024.
Earth Observation and AI for Sustainable Flood Management through Long-term Forecasting and Resource Planning. Mariana Damova. (Panel presentation). UN Austria Symposium “Climate action: transforming space-based technology projects into sustainable services that support policy-making”, Gratz, Austria, June 2024.
Reproduction of dialogues in monologues: A semantic pragmatic analysis of questions. Silvano Purificacao, Giedre Valuanaite Oleskeviciene, Mariana Damova, Chaya Liebeskind. In Proceedings of 7th ESTIDIA Conference Exploring Real-Life, Fictional and Virtual Dialogues: Similarities, Differencea and Compelementarities 2024. Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2024.
Forecasting Discharge with EO4AI Along the Danube River (poster). Mariana Damova, Stanko Stankov. 2024 Danube Water Forum, Brasov, Romania, May 2024.
Sustainable Exploitation of Dams and Rivers. Mariana Damova. World Water Day Conference “Water resources: management, preservation and effective use”, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 2024.
Intelligent Web-based Workflow with Embedded Early Warning Based on Earth Observation and AI: A Case for Water Resources Management. Mariana Damova. (poster) UN World Space Forum. Vienna, Austria, December 2023.
Forecasting Discharge and Water Levels of Rivers and Dams using Earth Observation and AI. Mariana Damova. UNOOSA Third Space4Water Stakeholder Meeting, Vienna, Austria, October 2023.
An Information e-Infrastructure for Monitoring of Water Resources or Rivers and Dams for Sustainable Exploitation of Dams and Rivers, based on Earth Observation and AI. (with Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pessek). KosmosBG 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria, September
Mariana Damova, Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pessek. An Information e-Infrastructure for Monitoring of Water Resources or Rivers and Dams for Sustainable Exploitation of Dams and Rivers, based on Earth Observation and AI. KosmosBG 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria, September
Building an Owl-Ontology for Representing, Linking and Querying SemAF Discourse Annotations (with Christian Chiarcos, Purificação Silvano, Mariana Damova, Giedre Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska) In: Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Vol. 49 No. 1, 2023
TELEMAC Hydrodynamic Models over Time: A Case Study with the Danube. (with Stanko Stankov, W. Alexander Breugem, Mariana Damova, Theofano Koutrouveli, Boudewijn Decrop). In: Proceedings of TUC2023, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2023, pp.174-182.
Validation of Language Agnostic Models for Discourse Marker Detection (with Kostadin Mishev Giedre Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Purificação Silvano, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Christian Chiarcos, Anna Baczkowska). In Proceedings of LDK2023, Vienna, Austria, September 2023.
Water Resources Management of the Danube with ISME-HYDRO (Poster) (with Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pesssek) 2023 Danube Water Conference. Vienna, Austria, June 2023.
Intelligent e-Infrastructure for Sustainable Management and Exploitation of Rivers and Dams based on Earth Observation and AI. (with Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov) New Capabilities and Countries in European Space Conference, ESTEC-ESA, Nordwijk, The Netherlands, May 2023.
Early Warning Embedded in Intelligent Web-based Workflow for River Monitoring through Earth Observation and AI. (with Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov) EGU General Assembly Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2023.
Forecasting Discharge and Water Levels of Rivers and Dams using Earth Observation and AI (with Stanko Stankov) EGU General Assembly Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2023.
Intelligent Information Infrastructure for monitoring and exploitation of water resources (with Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov) 4th Cope4BG Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 2022.
Intelligent Web-based Workflow for River Monitoring through Earth Observation and AI for Sustainable Development. (with Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov. ). 25th International River Symposium 2022 (IRS 2022), Vienna, Austria, November 2022, video presentation.
Information Systems for Water Resource Management. 1St UN Space for Water Stakeholder Meeting, Vienna, Austria, October 2022.
River Dynamics Forecasting using Telemac, Earth Observation and AI. (with Stanko Stankov) In Proceedings of Telemac User Conference 2022 (TUC 2022), Paris-Saclay, France, October 2022, pp. 281-289.
Machine Learning Methods for Discourse Marker Detection in Italian. (with Emma Angela Montechiari, Kostadin Mishev, Stanko Stankov and Mariana Damova) In: Proceedings of Workshop on Deep Learning and Neural Approaches for Linguistic Linked Data 2 (DL4LD), A NexusLinguarum Workshop. Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2022.
An OWL Ontology for ISO-based Discourse Marker Annotation. (with Christian Chiarcos, Purificação Silvano, Giedre Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truica§, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska) In: Proceeding of “LLOD approaches for language data research and management” (LLODREAM2022), A NexusLinguarum Conference. Vilinius, Lithuania, September 2022.
(Common) ground and Discourse Development Prediction Associated with the Role of Intonation in the Interpretation of Communicative Connectives. (with Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk). SLE 2022, Bucharest, Romania, August 2022.
ISO-based Annotated Multilingual Parallel Corpus for Discourse Markers. (with Purificação Silvano, Giedre Valunaite Oleškevicien, Chaya Liebeskind, Chaya Liebeskind, Christian Chiargos, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska) Poster. LREC 2022, Marseille, France, June 2022.
ISME-HYDRO – an e-Infrastructure for Monitoring Groundwater Resources Based on Earth Observation and AI. Lightning Talk. 5th Invernational Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water Resources Management, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Accra, Ghana, May 2022.
Link to the presentation
Forecasting of River Runoff and Sediment Deposition with Methods of EO4AI for Fairway Modification Prediction. (with Stanko Stankov) Poster. Living Planet Symposium 2022 (LPS’2022), Bonn, Germany, May 2022.
ISO-DR-core plugs into ISO-dialogue acts for a crosslinguistic taxonomy of discourse markers. (with Purificação Silvano) DiSLiDaS 2022 workshop, NexusLinguarum, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2022.
Evaluation of Cross-Lingual Methods for Discourse Markers Detection.
(with Kostadin Mishev Giedre Valunaite Oleškevicien, Chaya Liebeskind, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Purificação Silvano, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Christian Chiargos). DiSLiDaS 2022 workshop, NexusLinguarum, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2022.
ISME-HYDRO – an Integrated System for Monitoring of Water Resources for Sustainable Exploitation of Dams and Rivers. (with Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov, Mihail Kopchev) In: Proceedings of International Conference on Water Resources Management and Sustainability: Solutions for Arid Regions, EXPO2020, Dubai, March 2022, pp.98-102.
Speaker Attitudes Detection through Discourse Markers Analysis. (with Giedre Valunaite Oleskevicienė, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Purificação Silvano, Christian Chiarcos), In: Proceedings of Workshop “Deep learning and Neural Approaches for Lingusitic Data”, NexusLinguarum, Skopje, October 2021.
Fairway Modification Mapping based on AI Models for Sediment Deposition and River Runoff Forecast. (with Stanko Stankov), In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week The New Space Economy, Virtual event, October 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6c23jzOWXw
Linked Data Meet Deep Learning to Empower Water Resources Monitoring of Dams. (with Emil Stoyanov, Mihail Kopchev, Hermand Pessek, Martin Petrov, Stefano Natali), In: Proceedings of Big Data From Space 2021 (BiDS’2021), Virtual Event, Originally planned to be hosted by University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (UPB), May 2021.
GIS-Based Representation of Lexical Geolinguistic Elements of the Bulgarian Language Territory – an Interactive Map of Bulgarian Dialects. (with Svilena Gospodinova), In: Bulgarian Language – Historical and Contemporary Aspects. Edition in Hounor of 140 Anniversary of Acad. Stefan Mladenov. Institute for Bulgarian Language. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2020, ISBN 978-619-90884-1-8.
Forecasting Water Volumes in Dams Based on Deep Learning Over Satellite Data. (with Martin Petrov, Emil Stoyanov), In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week Digital Twin Earth, Virtual event, September 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TngfMuLAEMs
Linked Open Data Prototype of the Historical Archive of the European Commission In: Proceedings of IS&T Archiving Conference, Washington, DC, USA, 2020. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/ist/ac/2020/00002020/00000001/art00019
https://archiving2020.connectedcommunity.org/tracks/community-home/librarydocuments/viewsessionentry?DocumentKey=8b8293b0-d659-490a-aa35-057a39be68fa
2017.01 ISA² Action: Standard-based archival data management, exchange and publication Phase 2: Work Package 4, Link Open Data (with Bernhard Kerpen) European Commission which ran within EPRS/ARCH/SER/16/013, Lot 1 ‘Analysis and Studies’: ISA² Programme: Interoperability Solutions for Public Administrations. Brussels, Belgium, 2020. https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/sites/isa/files/docs/publications/the_link_open_data_process_description.pdf
Ontology-Based Semantic Search Over Linked Satellite, Geospatial, Numeric and Symbolic Data in the Water Management Domain (with Emil Stoyanov, Mihail Kopchev, Hermand Pessek), In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week EO Open Science and FutureEO, Frascati, Italy, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWi7mAz2iZg
Linked Data Approach to Water Resources Management of Hydropower Reservoirs (with Emil Stoyanov, Mihail Kopchev, Stefano Natali, Katerina Kuzmanova), In: Proccesings of ISDE’2019 (11th International Symposium of Digital Earth), Florence, Italy, 2019. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/509/1/012011
An Information System for Monitoring of Hydropower Reservoirs in Bulgaria (with Emil Stoyanov, Martin Petrov) In: Proceedings of Cope4BG, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxRcdpNzZ1s
Linked Data Infrastructure for Monitoring Large Hydropower Reservoirs (with Emil Stoyanov, Martin Petrov) In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week EO Open Science and FutureEO, Frascati, Italy, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK-o10jf0ro
Mapping the Routes of Paisij Hilendarski’s Istorija slavjanobolgarskaja: The Start of the Site “Geography of Letters” (with Margaret Dimitrova) In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Society for the Study of the 18th Century, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018.
Multilingual Retrieval Interface for Structured Data on the Web (with Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache). In: Proceedings of NLIWod 2014, ISWC’2014, Trento, Italy, 2014.
A Multilingual SPARQL-Based Retrieval Interface for Cultural Heritage Objects (with Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache). In: Poster at ISWC’2014 P&D, Trento, Italy, 2014.
Natural Language Interaction with Semantic Web Knowledge Bases and LOD (with Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache, Maria Mateva, Aarne Ranta). In: Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web, Paul Buitelaar and Philip Cimiano, eds., Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2014.
Bulgariana, the Bulgarian Version of Europeana In: Proceedings of the International Symposium St.St. Cyril and Methodius and the Golden Age, Preslav, November 2013.
Multilingual Access to Cultural Heritage Content on the Semantic Web (with Dana Dannelles, Aarne Ranta, Ramona Enache, Maria Mateva). In Proceedings of LaTeCH (Language Technologies for Cultural Heritage) Workshop at ACL’2013. Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.
Bulgariana: A Bulgarian Aggregator to Europeana In: Proceedings of “Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage” (DiPP2012), Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, September 2012.
Alignment-based Querying of Linked Open Data (with Amit Krishna Joshi, Prateek Jain, Pascal Hitzler, Pete Z. Yeh, Kunal Verna, Amit P. Sheth) In: Proceedings of Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) 2012, Rome, Italy, September 2012.
FactForge: Data Service or Diversity through Inferred Knowledge over LOD (with Kiril Simov, Zdravko Tashev, Atanas Kiryakov) In Proceedings of AIMSA’2012 Varna, Bulgaria, September 2012.
FactForge Data Service and the Value of Inference over LOD In: Proceedings of European Data Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2012.
OWLIM Reasoning over FactForge (with Barry Bishop, Atanas Kiryakov, Zdravko Tashev, Kiril Simov) In: Proceedings of OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE’2012), collocated with IJCAR 2012, Manchester, UK, July 2012.
Semi-Automatic Generation of Quizzes and Learning Artifacts from Linked Data (with Guillermo Álvaro Rey, Irene Celino, Panos Alexopoulos, Danica Damljanovic, Ning Li, Vladan Devedzic) In: Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data (Linked Learning 2012), WWW’2012, Lyon, France, April 2012.
Multilingual Online Generaton from Semantic Web Ontologies (with Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache, Milen Chechev)In: Proceedings of WWW’2012, Lyon, France, April 2012.
Creation and Integration of Reference Ontologies for Efficient LOD Management (with Atanas Kiryakov, Maurice Grinberg, Michael K. Bergman, Frederik Giasson, Kiril Simov) In: Semi-Automatic Ontology Development: Processes and Resources, IGI Global, Hershey PA, USA, 2012.
An Infrastructure for Integrating and Accessing Museum Linked Data (with Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache, Milen Chechev) In: Proceedings of Workshop Language Technologies for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, RANLP’2011, Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2011.
Reason-able View of Linked Data for Cultural Heritage (with Dana Dannells) In: Proceedings of S3T’2011, Burgas, Bulgaria, September 2011, pp. ,Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, ISSN: 1867-5662, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.
D 4.2 Data Modela and Alignment MOLTO FP7-ICT-247914, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2011.
Contextual Ontology Alignment of LOD with an Upper Ontology: A Case Study with Proton (with Prateek Jain, Peter Z. Yeh, Kunal Verma, Reymonrod G.,Vasquez Pascal Hitzler and Amit P. Sheth) In: Proceedings of 8th ESWC, Extended Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece, May 2011.
Ontological Support for Creative Writing (with Darina Dicheva, Christo Dichev) In: Proceedings of 24th FLAIRS Conference, Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, Palm Beach, Florida, May 2011
Storing The Semantic Web : Repositories (with Atanas Kiryakov) In: Semantic Web Handbook, pp. , Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.
D1.2.1 Initial Data Integration (with Maurice Grinberg and Atanas Kiryakov). RENDER FP7-ICT-2009-5, Contract no.: 257790, Sofia, Bulgaria, January 2011(www.render-project.eu).
Mapping the Central LOD Ontologies to PROTON Upper-Level Ontology (with Atanas Kiryakov, Kiril Simov and Svetoslav Petrov) In Proceedings of – Ontology Matching workshop, International Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China, November 2010.
Query-Based Summarization: a Survey (with Ivan Koychev) In Proceedings of S3T’2010, Varna, Bulgaria, September, 2010, pp. 142-147, Demetra, Sofia, 2010.
Mapping Data Driven Ontology and Upper Ontology (with Kiril Simov, Svetoslav Petrov) In Proceedings of AIMSA’2010, Varna, Bulgaria, September, 2010, pp. , LNAI Series, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2010.
D.4.1 Requirement Analysis for Semantic Annotation of TV Content (with Marie-Lore Mevel, Luca Vignaroli, Fulvio Negro, Martin Riethmayer, Rico Zimmermann, Guus Schreiber, Ronald Siebes, Roberto Del Pero, Roberto Borgotallo), NoTube FP7 – 231761, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2009.
D.4.1 Requirement Analysis for Semantic Annotation of TV Content (with Marie-Lore Mevel), NoTube FP7 – 231761, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 2009.
The Aspectual Type BEGIN (with Sabine Bergler) In: Proceedings of TALN’2000, Lauzanne, Suisse, October 2000.
Semantic Representation and Construction of the Cross-categorial Language Phenomenon Aspect Accepted as alternate paper at CNLS’2000, Paris, France, May 2000.
The Notion of Aspect and the Bulgarian Wid Within Discourse Representation Theory In: Papers from Third Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages. Plovdiv, September 1999. Working Papers in Linguistics No 34, University of Trondheim, Mila Dimitrova-Vylchanova, Iliyana Krapova, Lars Hellan eds., pp.262-275, Dragvoll, Norway, 2000. (postscript, 13 pages)
BOOK:
Tense and Aspect in Discourse – A Study of the Interraction between aspect, discourse relations and temporal reference within Discourse Representation Theory with special attention to Bulgarian ISBN 954 9908 011. FDC Publishing Agency, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1999.
Performance Support System for Child Protective Services. Part Assessment InfoReport, Youth-Protection Centers and Sogique, Quebec, Canada, March 1999. (available upon request, in English or in French)
Inference between Aspectual Verbs and Events (with Sabine Bergler) In Proceeedings of ESSLLI’98 Workshop: Lexical Semantics in Context. Saarbruecken, Germany, August 1998.
Tense and Aspect in Discourse (A Study of the Interraction between aspect, discourse relations and temporal reference within Discourse Representation Theory with special attention to Bulgarian.) PhD Dissertation. Institute for Computational Linguistics. University of Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany. July, 1998.
Nancy TEI Workshop Report on an Interractive Query System of the TELRI Resources In TELRI Newsletter No.4. Manheim, Germany, October 1996. TELRI Event – Nancy TEI Workshop
Adverbs in the Transfer Module of MDS Report 100, BMBF, December, 1995. (postscript, 30 pages)
The Transfer of Adverbs and Adjectives In: The MDS-Handbook in the Verbmobil Demonstrator, (Chapter 2), Report 147, BMBF, August, 1995. (postscript, 133 pages)
Statistically Based Automatic Part of Speech Tagging of French Texts (with Achim Stein) In: Techn.Rep. of “Tools for Text-Corpora”,IMS, UNI-Stuttgart, 1994.
Aspect and Discourse Relations In: Proceedings of CONSOLE II, Tuebingen, December, 1993.
The Long Journey from the Real Core to the Real Size of Large LDBs (with Elena Paskaleva, Kiril Simov, Milena Slavcheva) In: Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from Text. Proceedings of a Workshop, Sponsored by the SIGLEX of the ACL, 31 ACL, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June, 1993.
Morpho-Assistant – a Knowledge Based System for Bulgarian Morphology (with K.Simov, E.Paskaleva, M. Slavcheva) In: DEMO Proceedings of ANLP Conference,Trento, 1992.
Creation de bases de donnees lexicales et textuelles du domaine de la bourse In: Systemes boursiers et marches financiers : 7 projets d’etude, INaLCO, CRIM, Paris, 1991.
TEACHING
Semantic Web
Summer’2014, Spring’2015, Spring’2016, Spring’2017, Spring’2018,
Spring’2019
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, at Sofia State University St
Kliment of Ohrid, Sofia, Bulgaria
Semantic Web
Winter’2009, Winter’2010, Winter’2011, Winter’2012, Winter’2013,
Winter’2014, Winter’2015, Winter’2016, Winter’2017, Winter’2018,
Winter’2019, Winter’2020
Compuiter Science Department, at New Bulgarian University, Sofia,
Bulgaria.
Multimedia
Spring’2011, Spring’2012, Spring’2013
Compuiter Science Department, at New Bulgarian University, Sofia,
Bulgaria.
Artificial Intelligence
teaching assistant
Winter’1998, Fall’1998, Summer’1999, Summer’2000,
Computer Science Department at Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.
Theoretical Computer Science
Fall’1999,
Computer Science Department at Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.
Introduction to Expert Systems
Winter’2000,
Computer Science Department at Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.
Computer Science Project I
Winter’2000,
Supervision of one group project on Web-Based Online Shopping
Computer Science Department at Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.
Discourse
Spring’1997,
Language Technology Program (STP) ,
Linguistics Department , University of Uppsala , Uppsala, Sweden.
Computational Discourse
Spring’1997,
Language Technology Program (STP) ,
Linguistics Department , University of Uppsala , Uppsala, Sweden.
Computational Semantics
Spring’1997,
Language Technology Program (STP) ,
Linguistics Department , University of Uppsala , Uppsala, Sweden.
MEMBERSHIPS (current and former) :
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Forecasting Discharge and Water Levels of Rivers and Dams using Earth Observation and AI. UNOOSA Third Space4Water Stakeholder Meeting, Vienna, Austria, October 2023.
Information Systems for Water Resources Management. 1st Space4Water Stakeholders Meeting, UNOOSA, Vienna, October 2022.
Link to the presentation
Earth Observation and AI Solving Societal Challenges. Invited Talk at UN Global Best Practice Programme, segment – Space Technologies for Development, Space Week, Expo2020, Dubai, October 2021
Semantic Information Infrastructures from Business Information Delivery to Water Management. Keynote talk. LAMBDA SUMMER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA ANALYTICS, Belgrad, Link to presentation, June 2020.
Semantic Information Infrastructures from Business Information Delivery to Water Management. CODIAX’2019, Cluj-Napoca, Link to presentation, November 2019.
ICT2018 – Imagine digital Pannel: Realising the potential of data for the economy and open science, European Commission, Vienna, Link to the presentation, December 2018.
Semantic information infrastructures and their value to data intensive services. Women in Data Science conference at Alan Turing Institute, London, Link to the presentation, April 6th, 2018.
Bulgariana in the context of Europeana, presentation at the Workshop Modern Digital Technologies for Museum Applications at the National History Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria, November 2014.
Mozaika, The Humanizing Technologies Lab, selected presentation for the Best in LT challenge at LT Innovate Summit, Brussels, Belgium, June 2014.
Bulgariana, the Bulgarian Version of Europeana, International symposion St.St.Cyril and Methodius and he Golden Age, Preslav, November 2013.
The Road towards a Bulgarian National Aggregator to Europeana, The Transformations of the B-Space. Celebration of 135 Anniversary of Varna Regional Library, Varna, Bulgaria, March 2013.
FactForge Data Service and the Value of Inference over LOD, European Data Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2012.
Ontologies, Semantic Technologies Seminar, Computer Science Department, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 2010.
Language Processing in Content Management, RALI Seminar, Computer Science Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, April 2007.
Linguistic Modules of VerbMobil Phase 1 – Semantic Construction and Transfert, RALI Seminar, Computer Science Department, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, June 2000.
VerbMobil Phase I, Speech Research Group, Nortel Networks, Montreal, Canada, November 1997.
PARTICIPATION IN RECENT CONFERENCES
RANLP’2015, Hissar, Bulgaria, 2015
WWW’2015, Florence, Italy, 2015
ISWC’2014, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2014
ACL’2013, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013
Europeana AGM 2012, Berlin, Germany, 2012
DiPP 2012, Veliko Tyrnovo, Bulgaria, 2012
AIMSA 2012, Zlatni Pjasyci, Bylgaria, 2012
Europeana Plenary 2012 Leuven, Belgium, June 2012
EDF’2012 Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2012
ESWC’2011, Heraklion, Crete, June, 2011.
ISWC’2010, Shanghai, China, November, 2010.
S3T’2010, Varna, Bulgaria, September, 2010.
AIMSA’2010, Varna, Bulgaria, September, 2010.
Dynamic Logic Workshop, Montreal, Canada, June 2007.
AI/GI/CRV/IS’2007, Montreal, Canada, May 2007.
… Artificial Intelligence
… Graphics Interface
… Computer & Robotic Vision
… Intelligent Systems
AI 2008, Montreal, Canada, May 2008.
Member of Program Committee.
CONSULTING
July-August 2007 McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine – Synopsis for Project: Indexing MEDLINE with PICO Evidence-Based Medicine Elements
November 2010 Moodle, Center for Educational Initiatives – , Sofia, Bulgaria
REVIEWER FOR
STUDENT WORK
Spring 2013 – Multimedia project – selected student work
Student Work – About Walk2Help
Student Work – About Crysis 3
Student Work – A tutorial for a Web-based scheduler
Student Work – About Lifeproof for smart phones
Student Work – About Diabolo
Student Work – A point of view about contemporary Bulgaria
Student Work – Part of Bulgaria
Spring 2012 – Multimedia project – selected student work
Student Work – Facebook vs. Face 2 Face
Student Work – Office design
Student Work – Energy Saving Light Bulb
Student Work – Think about the Earth
Student Work – Activists
Student Work – Choose NBU
Student Work – Tourist Agency – 2
Student Work – Tourist Agency – 1
Student Work – 3D lesson on the Solar System
Student Work – 3D Video Gane Trailer
Student Work – Treasures of North Bulgaria
Student Work – Trailer for SpaceShipz 3D Game
Spring 2011 – Multimedia project – selected student work
Student Work – At the Zoo
Student Work – Nokia N8
Student Work – Bio Products
Student Work – Hotel in Bansko
Student Work – Hitman Game
Student Work – Smart phone feature presentation
Student Work – Onlline store for computers