Milena Slavcheva

 

Researcher

 

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Institute for Parallel Processing

Linguistic Modeling Department

 

 

Contact details: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

                        Institute for Parallel Processing

                        Linguistic Modeling Department

                        25A, Acad. G. Bonchev St.

                        1113 Sofia, BULGARIA

 

                         Phone: +359 2 979 2812

                         E-mail: milena@lml.bas.bg

 

Photos: One, Two

 

Expertise summary

*    building formal models of language for software applications

*     production of language resources: lexicons and corpora

 

Research and development experience

*     Semantic structures: lexical semantics, verb semantics, predicate-argument structure, event modelling, conceptual modeling

*     Syntactic structures: shallow parsing, verb-centred structures, verb classification

*     Production and processing of text corpora: markup standards (XML, TEI, CES)

*     Production of lexical resources

*     Constraint-based syntactic theories and formalisms (HPSG)

*     Morphosyntactic annotation

*     Standardization

*     Project management

 

Languages

*     Bulgarian (native)

*     English (excellent)

*     Hungarian (excellent)

*     French (good)

*     Russian (good)

*     German (basics)

 

Publications

 

Edited volumes

*     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

 

Papers

*     Slavcheva, M. (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 », Series : Lingue d’Europa e del Mediterraneo, Sub-series : Grammatica comparata, Aracne, Rome, Italy (in press)

*     Slavcheva, M. (2008) “Verb Predicates: Concepts, Model Elements and Lexicon Structures”, In: Proceedings of  International Conference ‘Lexis and Grammar 2008’, l’Aquila, Italy, pp. 151-158

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Slavcheva, M. (2006) “Semantic Descriptors: The Case of Reflexive Verbs.” In: Proceedings of LREC 2006, Genoa, Italy, pp. 1009-1014

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

*     Slavcheva, M. “The Structure of the Verb Diathesis Paradigm: a Case Study of Bulgarian.” In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Comparative Slavic Morphosyntax "The State of the Art", Spencer, Indiana, USA. (to appear)

*     Slavcheva, M. (2004) “Verb Valency Descriptors for a Syntactic Treebank.” In: Proceedings of LREC 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pp.1153-1156

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Slavcheva, M. (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)

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Simov, K., Osenova, P., Slavcheva, M., Kolhovska, S., Balabanova, E., Doikov, D, Ivanova, K., Simov, A., Kouylekov, M. (2002) “Building a Linguistically Interpreted Corpus of Bulgarian: the BulTreeBank”. In: Proceedings of LREC 2002, Canary Islands, Spain, pp.1729-1736

*     Simov, K., Slavcheva, M., Osenova, P. (2001) “Why Not in Bulgarian?” In: PC World, October 2001, pp.33-36 (in Bulgarian)

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Slavcheva, M., Zaharieva, B. (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

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Paskaleva, E., Simov, K., Damova, M., Slavcheva, M. (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

*     Simov, K., Paskaleva, E., Damova, M., Slavcheva, M. (1992) “MORPHO-ASSISTANT: Knowledge-Based System for Bulgarian Morphology“. In: Proceedings of the Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Trento, Italy

 

Abstracts

*     Slavcheva, M. (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, pp.30-31

*     Slavcheva, M. (2002) “Defining Meaningful Patterns in the Group of the Predicate.” 7th TELRI Seminar, September 26-29, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp.14-15

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

*     Slavcheva, M., Zaharieva, B. (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

 

Reports and seminar presentations

*     Simov, K., Osenova, P., Slavcheva, M. (2004) “BTB-TR03: BulTreeBank Morphosyntactic Tagset.“ BulTreeBank Project Technical Report No.3, Sofia, Bulgaria

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

*     Slavcheva, M. (2003) “Compound Verb Forms: Shallow Parsing and Deep Linguistic Analysis.” Technical Report. BulTreeBank Project, Sofia, Bulgaria

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

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

*     Slavcheva, M. (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"

*     Slavcheva, M., Paskaleva, E. (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"

 

Book reviews

*     Slavcheva, M. (2008) Book review: Bazenga, Aline Maria Pinguinha França (2007) Aspects de la syntaxe, de la sémantique et de la morphologie des verbes à /complexité/, Series: Linguistics Edition 61, LINCOM GmbH, Muenhen. In : Linguist List, Issue 19.1004

*     Slavcheva, M. (2002) Book review: Cann, R., C. Grover and P. Miller (ed.) (2000) Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG, CSLI Publications, Stanford, California, USA, Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism 8. In: Linguist List: Vol-12-1900

*    Slavcheva, M. (1995) Book review: Kayne, Richard S. (1994) The Antisymmetry of Syntax. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Twenty-Five. The MIT Press: Cambridge. In: Linguist List, Vol-6-1651

 

Projects

*     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.

 

*     Centre of Excellence BIS-21++

 

*     BulTreeBank

HPSG-based syntactic treebank of Bulgarian
Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation

 

*     Centre of Excellence BIS-21

WP5: Knowledge-based tools for linguistic research

 

*     TELRI (Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure)

INCO-Copernicus Concerted Action

 

*     ELAN (European Language Activity Network)

MLIS Project

 

*     BILEDITA (Bilingual Electronic Dictionaries and Text Alignment)

Copernicus'94 JRP

 

*     CLOSSER (Support of Second Language Acquisition and Learning from Aligned Corpora)

Copernicus'94 JRP

 

*     Formal model of Bulgarian morphology and large lexical knowledge base of Bulgarian

 

 

Last updated October 2009