Location :Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade

Agata Savary

Professor in computer science
Université Paris-Saclay
LISN (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique)
IUT d'Orsay (University Institute of Technology)
https://perso.lisn.upsaclay.fr/savary/

Prof dr Agata Savary is a professor in computer science at the Paris-Saclay University in France. She holds a MSc from the University of Warsaw in Poland, a PhD from the University of Marne-la-Vallée in France, and a Habilitation from the University of Tours in France. She has been dealing with multilingual NLP for 3 decades. Her domains of interest include natural language processing (NLP), universalist and NLP-applicable modelling of idiomaticity in language, as well as construction of language resources and tools for multiword expression identification, named entity recognition, and coreference resolution.


Svetla Koeva

Professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Director of the Institute for Bulgarian Language
Chair of the Department of Computational Linguistics
http://dcl.bas.bg/news/svetla-koeva/

Dr Svetla Koeva is a professor of Computational Linguistics and the head of the Department of Computational Linguistics at the Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests lie in the field of computational linguistics, formal description of language: morphology and syntax, lexical-semantic networks and ontologies. She is the principal investigator in the development of various language resources for Bulgarian such as: Bulgarian WordNet, Bulgarian National Corpus, text processing chain, etc.


Ruslan Mitkov

Professor of Computing and Communications, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University
Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering
Director of the Erasmus Mundus Programme on Technology for Translation and Interpreting (EM TTI)
Executive Editor of the journal ‘Natural Language Processing’ (Cambridge University Press)
Programme Chair of the RANLP conference series
https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/mitkov

Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov is Professor in Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, one of the top-10 UK universities. Prior to joining Lancaster University, Prof Mitkov worked at the University of Wolverhampton where he created and led the internationally leading Research Group in Computational Linguistics, and was also Director of the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing as well as Director of the Responsible Digital Humanities Lab. Prof Mitkov is also Distinguished Professor at the University of Alicante, Spain.


Cvetana Krstev

Professor of Informatics at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology (retired)
President of the Language Resources and Technologies Society (JeRTeh)
https://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/~cvetana/

Prof. Dr. Cvetana Krstev is a retired professor of Informatics at the Department of Librarianship and Informatics, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology. Her scientific field is Human Language Technologies (HLT). She has published one book and more than 200 scientific papers, most related to natural language processing, more specifically to language resources development and their application. She has developed the Serbian morphological e-dictionary and was one of the key contributors to the development of the Serbian WordNet, Serbian monolingual and aligned multilingual corpora, the named-entity recognition system for Serbian, as well as systems for automatic text correction, for various text transformations, corpus-lexicon interaction and many other language resources and tools.