This website is a reflection of Mariana Damova's present and past activities, projects and achievements. |
Mariana Damova's international expertise is natural language processing and artificial
intelligence. She has contributed to the design and development of several unique systems, ranging from morphological knowledge
base and a large-scale computational dictionary, through machine translation, natural language understanding, dialogue,
information extraction and information retrieval, ontology engineering, ontology matching, linked open data, reason-able
views, semantic technologies. She has lead international interdisciplinary teams and projects, driven and managed change
in engineering and operational contexts, and acquired the ability to leverage marketing requirements with engineering solutions
and to identify added value to new technological solutions. Mariana Damova is internationally schooled, with degrees in
classical philology, multilingual engineering and PhD in linguistics with specialty discourse semantics and computational
linguistics. She has conducted research and taught at academic institutions internationally, published academic work. Adaptable,
highly trained convincing leader, and creative problem solver, Mariana Damova displays deep perception and human consideration,
and avid interest in creative projects providing direct link between high-end new technologies and human sciences.
Mariana Damova participates in various initiatives related to education and the European Union. She collaborates with
several NGOs striving to modernize the education in Bulgaria introducing new practices and methods.
