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Academic Work

CONTENTS :

    - Pubications
    - Current and former memberships
    - Public presentations
    - Recently attended conferences
    - Awards

PUBLICATIONS

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.

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         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 8^th ESWC, Extended Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece, May 2011.
Ontological Support for Creative Writing (with Darina Dicheva, Christo Dichev) In: Proceedings of 24^th 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. (abstract, postscript, 4 pages)
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. (summary) Where to order? order information
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. (postscript, 23 pages)
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. (extended abstract, and table of contents, postscript, 24 pages)
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. (postscript) , hardcopy available upon request.
Aspect and Discourse Relations. In: Proceedings of CONSOLE II, Tuebingen, December, 1993. (postscript)
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. (postscript) , hardcopy available upon request.
Morpho-Assistant - a Knowledge Based System for Bulgarian Morphology, (with K.Simov, E.Paskaleva, M. Slavcheva) In: DEMO Proceedings of ANLP Conference,Trento, 1992. (postscript) , hardcopy available upon request.
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. (hardcopy available upon request)

TEACHING

Discourse
Spring'1997,
Language Technology Program (STP) ,
Linguistics Department , University of Uppsala , Uppsala, Sweden.
Summary
Computational Discourse
Spring'1997,
Language Technology Program (STP) ,
Linguistics Department , University of Uppsala , Uppsala, Sweden.
Summary
Computational Semantics
Spring'1997,
Language Technology Program (STP) ,
Linguistics Department , University of Uppsala , Uppsala, Sweden.
Summary
Artificial Intelligence
teaching assistant
Winter'1998 ,
Fall'1998, Summer'1999, Summer'2000,
Computer Science Department at Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.
Summary (undegraduate lavel) , Summary (graduate level)
Theoretical Computer Science
Fall'1999,
Computer Science Department at Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.
Summary
Introduction to Expert Systems
Winter'2000,
Computer Science Department at Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.
Summary (undegraduate level), Summary (graduate level)
Computer Science Project I
Winter'2000,
Supervision of one group project on Web-Based Online Shopping
Computer Science Department at Concordia University , Montreal, Canada.
Summary

Semantic Web
Winter'2009, Winter'2010, Winter'2011
Compuiter Science Department, at New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Multimedia
Spring'2011
Compuiter Science Department, at New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

MEMBERSHIPS (current and former) :

ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
ACM (Association for Computing Machinerie)
AAAI (American Association of Artificial Intelligence)
IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

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

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

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STUDENT WORK

Spring 2011 - Multimedia project

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 - Online store for computers