Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ph.D.

Professor at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)
https://www.tiagotorrent.com/about

Tiago Torrent is a Cognitive Linguist working on Natural Language Processing within the framework of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar. He is head of the FrameNet Brasil Computational Linguistics Lab, PI of ReINVenTA and Professor of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. He is a Research Productivity Grantee of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the President of the Global FrameNet Association. He served as a Guest Professor at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism and Language Technology at the University of Gothenburg.

Prof. dr Petya Osenova

Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” and IICT-BAS
petya@bultreebank.org

Dr. Petya Osenova is professor in Contemporary Bulgarian Grammar (morphology, syntax and corpus linguistics) in the Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” and senior researcher in the area of Language Technologies in the Department of Linguistic Modelling and Knowledge Processing at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her scientific interests are in the fields of formal and computational linguistics, language resources, natural language processing, grammar-lexicon interface.

Petya Osenova was a key person in a number of EU projects, related to eLearning, Machine Translation, Language resources (EuroMatrixPlus, AsIsKnown, LTfLL, QTLeap, EUCases, among others). She is the responsible person for the language resources in CLaDA-BG – the CLARIN and DARIAH joint framework in Bulgaria. Petya Osenova is the Bulgarian representative at the CLARIN User Involvement Committee and its chair from 2026 in CLARIN-ERIC. Petya Osenova was a co-coordinator of the ParlaMint project (the first CLARIN flagship project 2020-2023) and is a participant in the follow-up OSCARS project ParlaCAP (2005 - 2007). She is the coordinator of the current CLARIN Flagship project PressMint (2026 - 2027).

Petya Osenova specialized in computational linguistics as a postdoctoral fellow in the Tuebingen University, Germany (2003) and in Groningen University, the Netherlands (2004); as a Fulbrighter at Stanford University, the USA (2010). Her postdoctoral projects were related to the contrsuction of the BulTreeBank, the quantitative measurement of Bulgarian dialects and the Resource grammar construction for Bulgarian.

Petya Osenova specialized in computational linguistics as a postdoctoral fellow in the Tuebingen University, Germany (2003) and in Groningen University, the Netherlands (2004); as a Fulbrighter at Stanford University, the USA (2010). Her postdoctoral projects were related to the contrsuction of the BulTreeBank, the quantitative measurement of Bulgarian dialects and the Resource grammar construction for Bulgarian.

Francesca Frontini

Researcher at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" of the CNR in Pisa
https://sites.google.com/site/francescafrontini/

Franceska Frontini holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pavia, Italy. From 2010 to 2014, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli", CNR, Pisa. In 2014 and 2015, she was an incoming FMSH Fellow at Labex Obvil, University Pierre et Marie Curie, LIP6, Paris. In 2015 and 2016, she became a researcher at the ILC "A. Zampolli", and from 2016 to 2020, she was an Associate Professor at the Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 and a member of the Praxiling Laboratory. Her research interests are Language resources, NLP, and Digital humanities.