Dr. Milena Slavcheva
Senior Researcher
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,
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.)
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,
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,
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,
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’,
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’,
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,
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