Associate Prof. Dr Svetla Boytcheva
Education
2003 - Ph.D. in Computer Science
(Artificial Intelligence); PhD thesis “Refinement operators in
Inductive Logic Programming”, Sofia University, Bulgaria
1994 - M.Sc. in Mathematics, Faculty of
Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University, Bulgaria ;
1994 - graduation in Teacher of
Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia
University, Bulgaria
1989 - finished Secondary school of
mathematics "Dr. Peter Beron"-Varna, with one year
specialisation in Computer programming
Teaching experience:
- Computer Programming in C++,
Perl, Prolog, Lisp, Logo, Visual Basic, Pascal
- Artificial Intelligence
- Functional and Logical
Programming Languages
- Computers in Education
- Machine Learning
- AI programming in Prolog
- Web-Programming
- Databases
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Discrete Mathematics
- Computer Architectures
- .NET Framework Programming with C#
- Computational Linguistics
- Intelligent Learning Systems
Fields of research:
Artificial Intelligence, Machine
Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computers in Education, Data
Structures and Algorithms, Adaptive Intelligent e-Learning Systems
Research Projects:
- Bulgarian National Science
Fund EVTIMA(2009-2011) Effective search of conceptual information
with applications in medical informatics", grant No DO
02-292/December 2008
- 7FP Project SISTER (2008-2010) Strengthening the IST Research Capacity of Sofia
University
- 6FP NoE Project
TENCompetence (2006-2008): Building the European network for Lifelong
Competence Development, Integrated project – FP6 IST-2005
- 6FP NoE Project ETN-DEC -
European Thematic Network for Doctoral Education in Computing
- 6FP NoE Project
KALEIDOSCOPE “Concepts and methods for exploring the future of
learning with digital technologies”, 2004-2008
- INCO-Copernicus Project
977074 LarFlast (Learning Foreign Language Scientific Terminology)
under EC Directorate General III, November 1998- October 2001
- INCO-Copernicus Project
977102 ILPnet2 - Network of Excellence in Inductive Logic Programming
- Funded by the European Commission, November 1998 –August 2001
- Geomland (Plane Geometry
System)- 1990-1995, http://iea.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/PGS/
International Experisence:
1993 (August) - Summer Workshop on
Computer Aided University Mathematics Instructions, Athens, Workshop
supported by Erasmus Program ICP-92-G-1031/11 and by TEMPUS Program
JEP 1980-92/2, organised by Athens University, Greece
1999 (July) - Department of Language
Engineering, Centre of Computational Linguistic, UMIST, Manchester,
UK.
2004 (June) - Hamburg University,
Germany.
2006 (January-August) - Germany, Hamburg
University – PostDoc UNESCO-Keizo Obuchi Fellowship programme
List of Selected Publications:
1. Boytcheva Sv., E. Paskaleva, I.
Nikolova, G. Angelova, D. Tcharaktchiev and N. Dimitrova, Extraction
and Exploration of Correlations in Patient Status Data, Proceedings
of Interational Workshop of Biomedical Information Extraction,
Borovetz, Bulgaria, p. 1-8, 2009
2. Boytcheva, S., E. Paskaleva, I.
Nikolova, and G. Angelova. Extracting Patient-Related Description
from Medical Records in Bulgarian. To appear in the Proc. of the
International Conference on Software, Services & Semantic
Technologies S3T-2009, 28-29 October 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria.
3. Boytcheva Sv. and G. Angelova,
Towards Extraction of Conceptual Structures from Electronic Health
Records, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Conceptual
Structure (ICCS-2009), Published in LNCS - LNAI Vol. 5662, Springer,
July, 2009
4. Boytcheva Sv., I. Nikolova and E.
Paskaleva, Context Related Extraction of Conceptual Information from
Electronic Health Records, In Proc. of Workshop on Conceptual
Structures for Extracting Natural Language Semantics (SENSE'09),
Moscow, 2009 also Published by CEUR-WS, Vol-476. ONLINE:
http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-476/
5. Boytcheva Sv. and M. Nisheva,
Semantically Enhanced Adaptive e-Learning System, In Proc. of 5th
International conference on Emerging e-Learning Technologies and
Applications (ICETA -2007), 6-8 September 2007, Slovakia, pp.
367-373, 2007
6. S. Boytcheva, A. Strupchanska, E.
Paskaleva, D. Tcharaktchiev, Some Aspects of Negation Processing in
Electronic Health Records, In Proc. of Language and Speech
Infrastructure for Information Access in the Balkan Countries,
Workshop at International Conference RANLP -2005 (Recent Advances in
Natural Language Processing), 25 September 2005, Borovets, Bulgaria,
pp. 1-8, 2005
7. S. Boytcheva, E. Kovatcheva,
Development of Adaptive e-Learning System Based on Learning Objects,
In Proceedings of International e-Learning conference, 6-7 September
2005, Berlin, Germany , pp 245-251, 2005
8. R. Nikolov, K. Stefanov, S.
Boytcheva, E. Stefanova, A. Georgiev, ATI Portal for Technology
Enhanced Learning, In Proceedings of e-Learning conference, 6-7
September 2005, Berlin, Germany , pp 9-17, 2005
9. Boytcheva, Svetla, Milena Yankova
and Albena Strupchanska 2004. Semantically driven approach for
scenario recognition in the IE system FRET. In Recent Advances in
Natural Language Processing III, Nicolov, Nicolas, Kalina Bontcheva,
Galia Angelova and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), John Benjamins Publishing
Company, 257 ff., pp. 257-266, 2005
10. Angelova G., A. Strupchanska, O.
Kalaydjiev, M. Yankova, Sv. Boytcheva and I. Vitanova. Towards deeper
understanding and personalisation in eCALL. In Proc. "eLearning
for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistics for
eLearning", Workshop at COLING 2004, Geneva, 2004.
11. Angelova G., A. Strupchanska, O.
Kalaydjiev, Sv. Boytcheva and I. Vitanova. Terminological Grid and
Free Text Repositories in Computer-Aided Teaching of Foreign Language
Terminology. In Proc.. "Language Resources: Integration &
Development in e-learning & in Teaching Computational
Linguistics", Workshop at LREC 2004, Lisbon, 2004
12. Boytcheva Sv., I. Vitanova, A.
Strupchanska, M. Yankova, G. Angelova. Towards the assessment of free
learner's utterances in CALL. In Proc.. "NLP and Speech
Technologies in Advanced Language Learning Systems",
InSTIL/ICALL Symposium 2004, Venice, 2004
13. Sv. Boytcheva, M. Yankova, A.
Strupchanska. Semantically Driven Approach for Scenario Recognition
in the IE System FRET, In Proc. International Conference RANLP-2003,
September 2003, Borovets, Bulgaria, pp.63-70, 2003.
14. Strupchanska A., Yankova M. and S.
Boytcheva, Conceptual Graphs Self-Tutoring System, In Proc. of
ICCS-2003, 11th International Conference of Conceptual Structures,
Published by Springer in LNAI 2746, Dresden, Germany, pp. 323-336,
2003
15. Yanakova M., S. Boytcheva, Focusing
on Scenario Recognition in Information Extraction, In Proc. of
EACL-2003, 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics, 12-17 April, Budapest, Hungary, 2003
16. Boytcheva, Sv., Z. Markov, An
Algorithm for inducing least generalization under relative
implication, In Proc. of 15th International conference FLAIRS
(Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society), AAAI Press, 13-16
May 2002, Pensacola, Florida, USA, pp. 322-326 , 2002
17. Boytcheva, Sv., A. Strupchanska and
G. Angelova, Processing Negation in NL Interfaces to Knowledge Bases,
Proc. of ICCS-2002, 10th International Conference of Conceptual
Structures, 14-19 July, Bulgaria, Published by Springer in LNAI 2393,
pp. 137-150, 2002
18. Angelova G., S. Boytcheva, O.
Kalaydjiev, S. Trausan-Matu, P. Nakov and A. Strupchanska, Adaptivity
in Web-Based CALL, Proc. of ECAI - 2002, 15th European Conference of
Artificial Intelligence, 21-26 July 2002, Lyon, France, pp. 445-449,
2002
19. Boytcheva, Sv., ILP Techniques for
Free-text Input Processing, In Proc. of AIMSA, 10th International
Conference Artificial intelligence: Methodology, Systems and
Applications, LNAI 2443 Springer, pp. 101-110, 2002
20. Boytcheva S., Overview of ILP
Systems, Journal of Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Vol. 1,
2002.
21. Boytcheva, Sv., P.Dobrev, G.
Angelova, CGExtract: Towards Extraction of Conceptual Graphs from
Controlled English, Contributions to ICCS-2001, 9th International
Conference of Conceptual Structures, Stanford University Press,
California, USA, pp. 89-116, 2001
22. Boytcheva, Sv., O. Kalaydjiev, A.
Strupchanska, G. Angelova, Between Language Correctness and Domain
Knowledge in CALL, Proc. of RANLP-2001, Eoroconference Recent
Advances in Natural Language Processing, Bulgaria, pp. 40-46, 2001
23. Angelova, G., A. Nenkova, S.
Boycheva and T. Nikolov, Conceptual Graphs as a Knowledge
Representation Core in a Complex Language Learning Environment, Proc.
ICCS-2000, 8th International Conference of Conceptual Structures,
Darmstadt, Germany, August 2000, Shaker Verlag, pp. 45-58, 2000.
24. Boytcheva S., Least Generalization
under Relative Implication, Proc. AIMSA-2000, 9th International
Conference Artificial intelligence: Methodology, Systems and
Applications, Varna, Bulgaria, September 2000, LNAI 1904, Springer,
pp.58-69, 2000
25. Boytcheva, Sv., O. Kalaydjiev, A.
Nenkova and G. Angelova, Integration of Resources and Components in a
Knowledge-Based Web-environment for Terminology Learning, Proc.
AIMSA-2000, 9th International Conference Artificial intelligence:
Methodology, Systems and Applications, Varna, Bulgaria, September
2000, LNAI 1904, Springer, pp. 210-220, 2000
26. Boytcheva Sv. and A. Nenkova.
Analysis of learner’s utterances in STyLE. Proceedings of
WITREC-2000, Web Information Technologies: Research, Education and
Commerce, Montpellier, France, May 2000, pp. 233-234.
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