Dr. Milena Slavcheva
Researcher
Linguistic Modeling Department
Contact details:
Linguistic
Modeling Department
2,
1113
Phone: +359 2 979 3269
E-mail: milena@lml.bas.bg
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 modeling, 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, 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,
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.
Papers
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,
Milena Slavcheva. 2006. “Building
Cross-Lingual Semantic Components: The Case of Reflexives” In: Slavcheva, M.,
Angelova, G., Simov, K. (Eds.)
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. “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)
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’,
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,
Abstracts
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, pp.30-31
Milena Slavcheva. 2002. “Defining Meaningful Patterns in the
Group of the Predicate.” 7th TELRI
Seminar, September 26-29, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp.14-15
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
Reports and seminar presentations
Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova and Milena Slavcheva.
2004. “BTB-TR03: BulTreeBank Morphosyntactic Tagset.“ BulTreeBank
Project Technical Report No.3,
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,
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.
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"
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"
Book reviews
Milena Slavcheva. 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
Milena Slavcheva.
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
Milena Slavcheva. 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.
BIS-21++ (Bulgarian
IST Centre of Competence in 21 Century)
Funded within the Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 2 (IST),
FP6-2004-ACC-SSA-2
BulTreeBank
HPSG-based syntactic treebank of
Bulgarian
Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
BIS-21 (Centre of Excellence in 21
Century)
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 2011