Petya Osenova
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details |
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| Date of birth | May 22, 1971 |
| Place of birth | Pleven, Bulgaria |
| E-mails | petya@bultreebank.org; petyaosenova@hotmail.com |
Publications |
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Research Grants |
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| 2010 | Building a Bulgarian Resource Grammar in the HPSG frameworkI was a Fulbrighter in Computational Linguistics at LinGO Lab, CSLI, Stanford University. I developed the first version of the Resource Grammar for Bulgarian. My host professor was Ivan Sag. I collaborated closely with Dan Flickinger. |
| 2004 | Measuring Language Contact ProjectI was a Postdoctoral at Alfa-Informatika, Groningen University (sponsorship by the Dutch Foundation NWO) I did some work on measuring distances between various Bulgarian dialects on the phonetic level. I collaborated with prof. John Nerbonne, Wilbert Heeringa, Peter Kleiweg. |
Education |
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| 1996-1999 | PhD in Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Title of the PhD Thesis: “Semantics and functioning of Indefinite pronouns in Bulgarian” (abstract in Bulgarian) |
| 1989-1995 | Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” MA in Czech language and literature 1995, MA in Bulgarian language 1995, Minor subject in English language and literature 1995 |
| 1985-1989 | Mathematical Secondary School, Pleven |
Student and Doctoral Scholarships |
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| 13 – 19 Sept. 1998 | Summer School “Contacts in Science” – Pamporovo, Bulgaria, organized by Swedish Council for Research and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| March – June 1995 | Scholarship at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
| July – August 1993 | Summer School in Olomouc, Czech Republic |
| 1992-1993 | One year scholarship from The Open Society Foundation, Bulgaria |
| 1993 | One year scholarship from The National Academic Foundation, Bulgaria |
Courses and Workshops |
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| 12-13 December 2014 | 12th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT-12), Tuebingen, Germany (co-organizer) |
| 11-15 August 2014 | Introductory Lecture Course on Knowledge-rich NLP at ESSLLI School 2014, Tuebingen, Germany (co-lecturer together with Kiril Simov) |
| 27 May 2014 | Workshop on Automatic Text Simplification
Methods and Applications in the Multilingual Society, in conjunction with COLING 2014 (co-organizer) |
| 29 October 2014 | Workshop on Language Technology for Closely Related Languages and Language Variants (LT4CloseLang) at EMNLP 2014(co-organizer) |
| 27 May 2014 | 3rd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2014):
Multilingual Knowledge Resources and Natural Language Processing at LREC 2014 (co-organizer) |
| 27 May 2014 | 3rd Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2014):
Multilingual Knowledge Resources and Natural Language Processing at LREC 2014 (co-organizer) |
| 13-14 December 2013 | 12th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT-12), Sofia, Bulgaria (co-organizer) |
| 13 September 2013 | Adaptation of language resources and tools
for closely related languages and language variants organized jointly with a session of COST Action IC 1002 MUMIA at RANLP 2013 (co-organizer) |
| 12 September 2013 | Joint Workshop on NLP&LOD and SWAIE: Semantic Web, Linked Open Data and Information Extraction at RANLP 2013 (co-organizer) |
| 3-6 July 2012 | Hosting the DELPH-IN (http://www.delph-in.net/) meeting on Deep Grammars at the Sofia University |
| 16 September 2011 | Co-organizer of Workshop on Language Technologies for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/RANLPDigHum2011) |
| 15 September 2011 | Co-organizer of Workshop on Annotation and Exploitation of Parallel Corpora (http://bultreebank.org/AEPC2/) |
| 12 September 2009 | Tutorial on “In the NLP world of knowledge nets”, at RANLP-2009, Borovets, Bulgaria (co-lecturer together with Kiril Simov) |
| 17 September 2009 | Workshop on Adaptation of Language Resources and Technology to New Domains, at RANLP-2009, Borovets, Bulgaria (co-organizer) |
| 26 September 2007 | Workshop on Computational Phonology, at RANLP-2007, Borovets, Bulgaria (co-organizer) |
| 24-27 July 2006 | The 13th International Conference on HPSG, Varna, Bulgaria (local co-organizer) |
| 14 July 2005 | Workshop on Exploring Syntactically Annotated Corpora, Birmingham, UK (co-organizer) |
| 9-20 April 2004 | ESSLLI 2005, Nancy, France (participant) |
| 13-14 April 2003 | Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC4), Budapest, Hungary (participant) |
| 27 March 2003 | Workshop on Shallow Processing of Large Corpora (SProLaC2003), Lancaster University, England (co-organizer) |
| 24-26 Sept. 2002 | International Workshop on Electronic Description and Edition of Slavic Resources, 24-26 Sept., Pomorie, Bulgaria (participant) |
| 20-21 Sept 2002 | The First Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT2002), Sozopol, Bulgaria (local co-organizer) |
| 8-19 Sept 2002 | Fall School on Empirical Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Sozopol, Bulgaria, (participant) |
| 5-6 Aug 2002 | ESSLI Workshop on Machine Learning Approaches in Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, 5-16 Aug (participant) |
| Jan-March 2002 | Specialization at the Department of Computational Linguistics (SfS), Tuebingen University |
| 15 – 20 October 2001 | How to use corpora in language teaching, Tuscan Word Center, Italy, (participant) |
| 16 – 27 July 2001 | ELSNET summer school on Corpus Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, (participant) |
| 25 Aug – 8 Sept 2000 | Summer School on Computational Linguistics and Represented Knowledge, CLaRK Programme, Sozopol, Bulgaria, (participant) |
| 20 – 31 March 2000 | Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 15, Prague, Czech Republic, (participant) |
Projects |
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| 2012-2017 | Vice-leader of WP4 on Treebanks in PARSEME COST Action (http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/parseme/), LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2013-2016 | Researcher in QTLeap EU Project on Machine Translation (http://qtleap.eu/), LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2013-2015 | Researcher in EUCases EU Project (http://eucases.eu/start/), LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2010 – 2012 | Researcher in EuroMatrixPlus EU Project on Machine Translation, LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2008 – 2011 | Researcher in the initiative “Fostering Language Resources Network” (FlareNet), LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2008 – 2011 | Researcher in EU 7 Frame Project “Language Technologies for Lifelong Learning” (LTfLL), LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2006 – 2009 | Researcher in EU 6 Frame Project “A Semantic-Based Knowledge Flow System for the European Home Textiles Industry” (AsIsKnown), LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2006 – 2008 | Researcher in EU 6 Frame Project “Language Technology for eLearning” (LT4LL), LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2004 – present | Organizer of the Bulgarian part in Question Answering contest (CLEF), LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2001 – 2007 | Postdoctoral at the BulTreeBank Project, LMD, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
Experience |
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| 2009 – present | Assоssiate Professor in morphology and syntax at the Division of Bulgarian Language, Faculty of Slavonic languages, St. Kl. Ohridski University |
| 2000 – 2009 | Assistant Professor in morphology and syntax at the Division of Bulgarian Language, Faculty of Slavonic languages, St. Kl. Ohridski University |
| 1999 – 2000 | Research Fellow, Section for Bulgarian lexicology and lexicography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 1999-2000 | Part-time Lecturer in Bulgarian syntax at the Division of Bulgarian Language, Faculty of Slavonic languages, St. Kl. Ohridski University |
| 1997-1998 | Part-time Lecturer in Czech language at the Faculty of Slavonic languages, St. Kl. Ohridski University |
Program Committees |
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| 2012 – present | Member of the editorial board of Journal of Language Modeling |
| 2006 – present | Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC ) |
| 2005 – present | Conference on Recent advances in NLP (RANLP) in Borovets, Bulgaria |
| 2005 – present | Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) |
| 2005 | ESSLLI 2005 Student Workshop, Edinburgh, UK |
| 2004 | ESSLLI 2004 Workshop on Combining Shallow and Deep Processing for NLP, Nancy, France |
| 2003 | ACL 2003 Student Research Workshop |
| 2003 | Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic theories, Sweden, November 2003 |
| 2003 | WORKSHOP IESL-2003 on Information Extraction for Slavonic and other Central and Eastern European Languages, Borovets, Bulgaria |
| 2003 | Workshop on Shallow Processing of Large Corpora (SProLaC2003), Lancaster University, England |
| 2003 | First Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic theories, Bulgaria, November 2002 |
Teaching |
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| 2009 – present | MA Course on Formal Grammars, Faculty of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Slavonic languages, St. Kl. Ohridski University |
| 1999 – present | Course on Bulgarian Morphology and Syntax at the Faculty of Slavonic languages, St. Kl. Ohridski University |