Dr. Milena Slavcheva

 

Senior Researcher

 

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Institute of Information and Communication Technologies

Department of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies

 

 

Current contact: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences                                                               

                        Institute of Information and Communication Technologies

                        Department of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies

                        2, Acad. G. Bonchev St.

                        1113 Sofia, BULGARIA                                                                        

 

                        E-mail: milena AT lml DOT bas DOT bg

 

 

Experience and expertise

Between April 2013 and April 2019 I worked as a policy analyst and IT expert in Directorate General Joint Research Centre (DG JRC) of the European Commission in Brussels, in the Knowledge for Finance, Innovation and Growth Unit.

In May 2019 I resumed my position of researcher in the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT).

I have extensive experience and high-level expertise in:

 

*    innovation ecosystems;

*    regional innovation impact assessment of universities;

*    knowledge transfer between academia and business;

*    entrepreneurship in higher education;

*    analysis of the research and innovation systems of the EU member states;

*    IT applications for evidence-based policy making;

*    human language technologies;

*    natural language processing;

*    semantic technologies;

*    object-oriented modelling;

*    building large-scale electronic language resources;

*    standardisation;

*    project management;

*    participation in negotiations with stakeholders;

*    authorship of high impact analytical reports and scientific papers

*    presentations at high level meetings and conferences;

*    organising scientific and policy-making conferences and workshops

 

Languages

*     Bulgarian (native)

*     English (excellent)

*     Hungarian (excellent)

*     French (very good)

*     Russian (very good)

*     German (basics)

 

Publications

 

PhD Dissertation

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2011. Semantic Descriptors of the Reflexive Forms of Verb Structures in Contemporary Bulgarian, French and Hungarian. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Sofia (in Bulgarian). (Summary in English)

 

Papers

*     Milena Slavcheva, Hristo Tanev, and Onur Uca. 2023. On the Road to a Protest Event Ontology for Bulgarian: Conceptual Structures and Representation Design. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text, pages 92–100, RANLP 2023, Varna, Bulgaria, ACL Anthology.

*      Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Osman Mutlu, Fırat Duruşan, Onur Uca, Alaeddin Gürel, Benjamin J. Radford, Yaoyao Dai, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Niklas Stoehr, Tadashi Nomoto, Milena Slavcheva, Francielle Vargas, Aaqib Javid, Fatih Beyhan, and Erdem Yörük. 2022. Extended Multilingual Protest News Detection - Shared Task 1, CASE 2021 and 2022. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE), pages 223–228, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.

*     Iva Marinova, Yolina Petrova, Milena Slavcheva, Petya Osenova, Ivaylo Radev, and Kiril Simov. 2021. Monitoring Fact Preservation, Grammatical Consistency and Ethical Behavior of Abstractive Summarization Neural Models. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021), pages 901–909, Held Online, ACL Anthology.

*     Wim Fyen, Stijn Kelchtermans, and Milena Slavcheva. 2021. University self-appraisal reports: Catholic University of Leuven. In: Robert Tijssen, John Edwards, and Koen Jonkers. Regional Innovation Impact of Universities, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., UK, pp.129-145.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2020. News Analysis for Knowledge Based Policy Making. In: Knowledge, Language, Models. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria, pp.278-285

*      Jonkers, K., Tijssen, R., Slavcheva, M., Karvounaraki, A., Goenaga, X. 2018. Regional Innovation Impact Assessment of European Universities: design and development of an evidence-based model. European Regional Science Association (ERSA) 58th Congress, Cork, Ireland.

*      Matusiak M., Kleibrink A. (eds.). 2018. Supporting an Innovation Agenda for the Western Balkans: Tools and Methodologies, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Todorova, Angelina and Slavcheva, Milena. 2018. RIO Country Report 2017: Bulgaria, JRC Science for Policy Report, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Dőry, Tibor, Csonka, László, and Slavcheva, Milena. 2018. RIO Country Report 2017: Hungary,  JRC Science for Policy Report, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Hallonsten, Olof and Slavcheva, M. 2018. RIO Country Report 2017: Sweden, JRC Science for Policy Report, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Rissola, Gabriel, Hervás, Fernando, Slavcheva, Milena, and Jonkers, Koen. 2017. Place-based innovation ecosystems. Espoo innovation garden and Aalto University (Finland), JRC Science for Policy Report, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Todorova, Angelina and Slavcheva, Milena. 2017. RIO Country Report 2016: Bulgaria, JRC Science for Policy Report, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Dőry, Tibor, Csonka, László, and Slavcheva, Milena. 2017. RIO Country Report 2016: Hungary,  JRC Science for Policy Report, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Hristov, Hristo, Slavcheva, Milena, Jonkers, Koen, and Szkuta, Katarzyna. 2016. Intersectoral mobility and knowledge transfer. Preliminary evidence of the impact of intersectoral mobility policy instruments, JRC Science for Policy Report, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Todorova, Angelina and Slavcheva, Milena. 2016. RIO Country Report 2015: Bulgaria, JRC Science for Policy Report, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Dőry, Tibor and Slavcheva, Milena. 2016. RIO Country Report 2015: Hungary,  JRC Science for Policy Report, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Alexander, Susan and Slavcheva, Milena. 2016. RIO Country Report 2015: Luxembourg, JRC Science for Policy Report, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2012. Mapping a Lexical Semantic Resource to a Common Framework of Computational Lexicons, In: Petr Sojka, Ales Horak, Ivan Kopecek and Karel Pala (Eds.). TSD 2012, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 7499, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, pp. 150-157.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2011. A Semantic Model of Bulgarian Reflexive Verbs and Their Hungarian Equivalents, In: Yonka Naydenova (ed.) Translation and Hungarian Culture, Iztok-Zapad Publishing House, Sofia, pp. 238-255 (in Bulgarian).

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2010. Eventity Type Taxonomy for a Lexical Semantic Knowledge Base, In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar,  Dusko Vitas and Cvetana Krstev (eds.), Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, pp.311-320.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2010. Verb Predicates: Concepts, Model Elements and Lexicon Structures. In: Michele De Gioia (Ed.) Actes du « 27e Colloque international sur le lexique et la grammaire », Seconde partie, Collection “Lingue d’Europa e del Mediterraneo. Grammatica comparata”, 1, Aracne, Roma, Italy

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2008. “Thinking in Objects”: Towards an Infrastructure for Semantic Representation of Verb-Centred Structures. In: Petr Sojka, Ales Horak, Ivan Kopecek and Karel Pala (Eds.). TSD 2008, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5246, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, pp. 193-200

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2007. Linking Reflexive Verb Structure to Verb Meaning in a Cross-Lingual Lexical Setting. In: Proceedings of  International Conference ‘Lexis and Grammar 2007’, Bonifacio, Corse, France, pp. 153-160

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2006. Building Cross-Lingual Semantic Components: The Case of Reflexives. In: Slavcheva, M., Angelova, G., Simov, K. (Eds.) Readings in Multilinguality, INCOMA, Shoumen, Bulgaria, pp.117-124

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2006. Semantic Representation of Events: Building a Semantic Primes Component. In: Petr Sojka, Ivan Kopecek and Karel Pala (Eds.). TSD 2006, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4188, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, pp. 245-252

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2006. Semantic Descriptors: The Case of Reflexive Verbs. In: Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy, pp. 1009-1014

*     Milena Slavcheva. Automatic Processing of Reflexive Structures in Bulgarian. Slavic Studies and Society, Heron Press, Sofia, (2006), pp. 261-267. (in Bulgarian)

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2004. Verb Valency Descriptors for a Syntactic Treebank. In: Proceedings of LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1153-1156

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2003. Integrating a Verb Lexicon into a Syntactic Treebank Production. In: Nivre, J., Hinrichs, E. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, Series: Mathematical Modelling in Physics, Engineering and Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 9, Vaxjo University Press, Sweden, pp. 165-176

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2003. Extracting Verb Complex Structures in Bulgarian. In: Cunningham, H., Paskaleva, E., Bontcheva, K., Angelova, G. (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Extraction for  Slavonic and Other Central and Eastern European Languages, RANLP 2003, Borovets, Bulgaria, pp. 94-101

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2003. Some Aspects of the Morphological Processing of Bulgarian. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Morphological Processing of Slavic Languages, EACL 2003, Budapest, Hungary, pp.71-77

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2003. Corpus Shallow Parsing: Meeting Point between Paradigmatic Knowledge Encoding and Syntagmatic Pattern Matching. In: Archer, D., Rayson, P., Wilson, A., McEnery, T. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2003 Conference, UCREL Technical Paper number 16. Special issue, Lancaster, UK, pp. 706-713

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2003.  Language Technology and Bulgarian Language: Classificational Model of the Verb. In: Slavistics at the Beginning of the 21 Century – Traditions and Expectations, SEMARSH Publishing House, Sofia, pp. 209-216 (in Bulgarian)

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2002. Segmentation Layers in the Group of the Predicate: a Case Study of Bulgarian within the BulTreeBank Framework. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop “Treebanks and Linguistic Theories”, September 2002, Sozopol, Bulgaria, pp. 199-210

*     Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova, Milena Slavcheva, Sia Kolhovska, Elisaveta Balabanova, Dimitar Doikov, Krasimira Ivanova, Alexander Simov and Milen Kouylekov. 2002. “Building a Linguistically Interpreted Corpus of Bulgarian: the BulTreeBank”. In: Proceedings of LREC 2002, Canary Islands, Spain, pp. 1729-1736

*     Kiril Simov, Milena Slavcheva and Petya Osenova. 2001. “Why Not in Bulgarian?” In: PC World, October 2001, pp. 33-36 (in Bulgarian)

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2000. The Challenge of Parallel Text Processing. In: Sojka et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialogue – TSD’2000. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1902, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, pp. 133-138

*     Milena Slavcheva and Boyanka Zaharieva. 1998. TENCO: Automatic Text Encoder. In: Sojka et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Text, Speech, Dialogue (TSD'98), Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 119-122

*     Milena Slavcheva. 1996. Some Aspects of the Application of HPSG Binding Theory to Bulgarian. In: Proceedings of International Conference ‘25 Anniversary of University of  Shumen’, Shumen, Bulgaria

*     Milena Slavcheva. 1994. Verbs at the Entrance to a Formal Syntactic Model. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium ‘Methodology of Mathematical Modeling, Sofia, pp. 193-195

*     Elena Paskaleva, Kiril Simov, Mariana Damova and Milena Slavcheva. 1993. The Long Journey from the Core to the Real Size of a Large LDB. In: Proceedings of ACL Workshop ‘Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from Text’, Columbus, Ohio, pp. 161-169

*     Kiril Simov, Elena Paskaleva, Mariana Damova and Milena Slavcheva. 1992. MORPHO-ASSISTANT: Knowledge-Based System for Bulgarian Morphology. In: Proceedings of the Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Trento, Italy

 

Presentations, abstracts and technical reports

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2018. Presentation of the DG JRC framework for the assessment of the innovation impact of universities on their regional ecosystems at the rectors meeting of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and seven Central European Universities (CE7) at the University of Warsaw.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2018. Assessing universities in innovation ecosystems. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of CESAER (the European association of leading specialised and comprehensive universities of science and technology), held in University Politehnica of Bucharest.

*     Gampfer, R., Hristov, H., Jonkers, K., La Placa, G., Mitchell, J., Slavcheva, M., Sprutacz, M., Stamenov, B., Szkuta, K., Zacharewicz, T., Zifciakova, J. 2016. Innovation Union – National pre-commercial or innovation procurement schemes by field, indicating budget and modalities. Existence of national target on public procurement of innovative goods and services. EC JRC Technical Report.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2015. Research and Innovation Observatory Newsletters. EC JRC Technical Report.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2015. Public support to R&D: analysis of recent trends in Bulgaria. EC JRC Technical Report.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2015. Public support to R&D: analysis of recent trends in Hungary. EC JRC Technical Report.

*     Athina Karvounaraki, Lorenzo Isella, Peter Fako and Milena Slavcheva. 2015. Public support to R&D and Smart Fiscal Consolidation: analysis of recent trends in Bulgaria. EC JRC Technical Report.

*     Athina Karvounaraki, Lorenzo Isella, Peter Fako and Milena Slavcheva. 2015. Public support to R&D and Smart Fiscal Consolidation: analysis of recent trends in Hungary. EC JRC Technical Report.

*     Athina Karvounaraki, Lorenzo Isella, Peter Fako and Milena Slavcheva. 2015. Public support to R&D and Smart Fiscal Consolidation: analysis of recent trends in Luxembourg. EC JRC Technical Report.

*     Milena Slavcheva and Monika Lanzenberger. 2014. Research and Innovation Observatory (RIO) customer base of keywords for the Europe Media Monitor (EMM). EC JRC Technical Report.

*     Monika Lanzenberger and Milena Slavcheva. 2014. Research and Innovation Observatory (RIO) Sourcebook: Collection of web sources of information in the R&I policy domain. EC JRC Technical Report.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2012. Specifying Participants Behaviour in Generalized Eventity Frames. International Conference on Concept Types and Frames (CTF’12), Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany, pp. 77-80

*     Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova and Milena Slavcheva. 2004. “BTB-TR03: BulTreeBank Morphosyntactic Tagset.“ BulTreeBank Project Technical Report No.3, Sofia, Bulgaria See here

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2003. “Some Aspects of the Interoperability of Annotation Schemes.” Seminar of Equipe langue et dialogue, May 26, LORIA, Nancy

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2003. Compound Verb Forms: Shallow Parsing and Deep Linguistic Analysis. Technical Report. BulTreeBank Project, Sofia, Bulgaria

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2002. Interaction between Shallow Parsing Strategies and Deeper Linguistic Analysis: a Case Study of Complex Verb Forms in Bulgarian. In: Fourth Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages, November 15-17, ETO Publishing House, Sofia.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2002. Defining Meaningful Patterns in the Group of the Predicate. 7th TELRI Seminar, September 26-29, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

*     Milena Slavcheva. 2000. “Part-of-Speech Tagging, Alignment, and Production of Text Documents in a Standardized Format“, GeFRePac Project, IDS, Mannheim, Germany

*     Milena Slavcheva. 1999. “ELAN Language Resource Validation“, ELAN Project, W.P. 2.3, Report D2.2.4, IDS, Mannheim, Germany

*     Milena Slavcheva. 1998. Some Reflections on Voice and Diathesis. Workshop on Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax ‘The State of the Art’, Spencer, Indiana, USA, pp. 7-9

*     Milena Slavcheva and Boyanka Zaharieva. 1998. Standardization and Automation in the Production and Management of Electronic Text Resources. In: De Smedt, K., Apollon, D. (eds.) The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age: Problems and Perspectives for Humanities Education and Research, Bergen, Norway, pp. 81-82

*     Milena Slavcheva. 1997. “A Comparative Representation of Two Bulgarian Morphosyntactic Tagsets and the EAGLES Encoding Standard“, TELRI I COPERNICUS Concerted Action 1202, Working Group 3 "Morphosyntactic Annotation" See here

*     Milena Slavcheva and Elena Paskaleva. 1997. “Application to Bulgarian. A contribution to the EAGLES Synopsis and Comparison of Morphosyntactic Phenomena Encoded in Lexicons and Corpora. A Common Proposal and  Applications to European Languages.“ TELRI I COPERNICUS Concerted Action 1202, Working Group 3 "Morphosyntactic Annotation" See here

 

Edited volumes

*     Milena Slavcheva (Ed.). 2020. Knowledge, Language, Models. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.

*     Vertan, C., Slavcheva, M., Osenova, P. (eds.). 2013. Adaptation of Language Resources and Tools for Closely Related Languages and Language Variants, Proceedings of international workshop, RANLP 2013, INCOMA, Shoumen, Bulgaria.

*     Petya Osenova, Stelios Piperidis, Milena Slavcheva and Cristina Vertan (eds.). 2012. Adaptation of Language Resources and Tools for Processing Cultural    Heritage Objects, Proceedings of international workshop, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

*    Cristina Vertan, Milena Slavcheva, Petya Osenova and Stelios Piperidis (eds.). 2011. Language Technologies for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Proceedings of international workshop, RANLP 2011, INCOMA, Shoumen, Bulgaria.

*     Stelios Piperidis, Milena Slavcheva and Cristina Vertan (eds.). 2010. Exploitation of Multilingual Resources and Tools for Central and (South-) Eastern European Languages, Proceedings of international workshop, LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta.

*     Cristina Vertan, Stelios Piperidis, Elena Paskaleva and Milena Slavcheva (eds.). 2009. Multilingual Resources, Technologies and Evaluation for Central and Eastern European Languages. Proceedings of international workshop, RANLP 2009, INCOMA, Shoumen, Bulgaria.

*     Elena Paskaleva and Milena Slavcheva (eds.). 2007. A Common Natural Language Processing Paradigm for Balkan Languages, Proceedings of international workshop, RANLP 2007, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.

*     Milena Slavcheva, Galia Angelova and Kiril Simov (eds.). 2006. Readings in Multilinguality, INCOMA, Shoumen, Bulgaria.

 

Recent projects

*     AutotekSt: a system for automatic abstractive summarisation. Project funded by the National Innovation Fund and the Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency - Grant No 10IF-02-17/28.11.2019.

*     Regional Innovation Impact Assessment Framework for universities: design and development of an evidence-based model. DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Brussels.

*     Research and Innovation Observatory. DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Brussels.

*     SemInVeSt: Infrastructure for Semantic Representation of Verb-Centred Structures

An infrastructure is developed for building cognitively motivated semantic descriptors of lexical structures. The infrastructure fosters the development of language resources which are highly varied, modular, multi-lingual, linguistically and computationally plausible. The linguistic knowledge organization is manifested by the component-driven population of SemInVeSt – a semantic knowledge base linked to verb-centred structures in a cross-lingual setting.

 

*     AsIsKnown (A semantic-based knowledge flow system for the European home textiles industry)

Funded within the Information Society Technologies (IST) Priority of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) of the European Commission

My task: A terminological explanatory lexicon in Hungarian has been created, which is part of the equipment of ontology, containing definitions of all important concepts in the domain of home textile and related domains like furniture, architecture, etc. The lexicon consists of 2500 terminological entries supplied with definitions in Hungarian.

 

*     BIS-21++ (Bulgarian IST Centre of Competence in 21 Century)

Funded within the Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 2 (IST), FP6-2004- ACC-SSA-2

 

 

Last updated: 1 December 2023