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Plenary Lecture

Language Technologies – Theories and Applications

Assistant Professor Velislava Stoykova
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Institute for Bulgarian language
Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail: vstoykova@yahoo.com

Abstract: Language technologies are very lively interdisciplinary area of research and applications in the fields of informatics, information technologies and linguistics. Natural languages are the common spread way of communication and they have been studied and described from ancient times till nowadays. At the same time, the information technologies applications offer fast ways of processing and exchanging linguistic information of different kind – textual, audio, visual, etc. by means of various programming products and some of them (like e-mails) are widely used nowadays for communication purposes independently of the language used. Language technologies, also, are applied very successfully in language research, and particularly in lexicography for fast production and updating of different language reference sources like dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. In our talk, we are going to analyze the general ideas and problems in design and applications of language technologies products including with a multilingual purposes.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Prof. Dr. Velislava Stoykova has received her MA degree from Sofia University. In 2004 she has received a PhD in computational linguistics and afterward, she is working active in the field. Her major areas of interest are: language modelling, natural language processing, computational lexicography, e-learning. From 1990 to 1995 she worked at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Parallel Processing as a programmer. From 1995 to 2011 she joined the research team of the Institute for Bulgarian language of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a researcher. From 2011 she works at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Bulgarian language as a professor. Prof. Dr. Stoykova has one book, more than 30 published papers in international conference proceedings and scientific journals, and is a co-author of two dictionaries. She is a member of the research team at the Institute for Bulgarian Language. She had worked on many research projects (national and international) as a member of the research team and as a project leader. Prof. Dr. Stoykova is a member of Bulgarian Lexicographic Society and a member of Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association.

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