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CURRICULUM VITAE of Prof. Galia Angelova

 

PERSONAL RECORD:

  • Full name: Galia Mladenova Angelova

  • Office Address: Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 25A Acad. G. Bonchev Str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

  • Telephone: (+3592) 979 6611, fax (+3592) 870 7273

  • E-mail: galia[followed by AT]lml(followed by DOT)bas(followed by DOT)bg

EDUCATION:

  • 1978 - M. Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Sofia

  • 1988 - Ph.D. in Mathematics, Computer and Automation Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI) (Query optimisation in relational databases)

PROFESSIONAL RECORD:

TEACHING:

  • 2013-2020 (winter semesters) - Lecturer. University of Sofia, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Courses taught: "Approaches to Natural Language Processing" (for M.Sc. students).

  • 2002-2010 (winter semesters) - Lecturer. University of Sofia, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Courses taught: "Introduction to Computational Linguistics" (for B.Sc. and M.Sc. students).

  • 1997-2002 (summer semester) - Lecturer. University of Sofia, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Courses taught: "Natural Language Processing" (for M.Sc. students in AI).

  • December 1997 - Lecturer. University of Aalborg (Denmark), Department of Communication. Courses taught: "Conceptual Graphs and Natural Language Processing".

  • 1989 - Lecturer. University of Sofia, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Courses taught: "Query Optimisation in Relational databases".

  • 1987 - 1989 - Lecturer. University of Sofia, Faculty of Classical and Western Languages, Courses taught:"Computational Linguistics".

  • 1979- 1984 - Teaching Asistant. University of Sofia, Faculty of Mathematics, Courses taught:"Discrete Mathematics".

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

  • Scientific Advisor of MSc students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia (in average one per year after 1996).

  • Scientific Advisor of PhD students in Computer Science.

  • Member of PhD Commissions abroad: University of Skopje (2007) and Aalborg University (2008).

  • Reviewer for the European Commission (in FP4-Copernicus, FP5, FP6, eContent, FP7, Horizon 2020) and the Bulgarian National Science Fund.

  • National Contact Person in IST FP6 (2002-2006) and ICT FP7 (2007-2013).

  • Member of the Specialised Scientific Council in Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, associated to the High Attestation Commission (2007-2010).

  • Member of the Board of EACL (the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics), 2003-2006.

  • Member of the Expert Commission in Maths and Computer Science of the Bulgarian National Science Fund, 2002-2004 and 2013-2016.

ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

 

LANGUAGES

  • Bulgarian (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • Russian (fluent)
  • German (basics)

PROJECTS BEFORE 2010:

  • 2009-2012 - Project Leader of EVTIMA "Efficient Search of Conceptual Patterns with Applications in Medical Informatics", grant DO-02-292 with the Bulgarian National Science Fund.

  • 2005-2007 - Steering Committee Member and Principal investigator in the project BIS-21++ Center of Competence FP6-2004-ACC-SSA-2, dealing with Knowledge-Based Systems.

  • 2005 - Coordinator of MLCF-CT-2004-013233, a FP6 Marie Curie Large Conference Grant for RANLP-2005, with the European Commission.

  • 2001-2004 - Principal investigator in the project BIS-21 Center of Excellence ICA1-2000-70016, dealing with Language Technologies for German and Bulgarian.

  • 2003 - Coordinator of the FP5 IST Conference Grant for RANLP-2003, with the European Commission.

  • 2001-2003 - Coordinator of Balric-Ling (IST-2000-26454).

  • 2001 - Coordinator of HPCF-2000-00329 EuroConference RANLP-2001, with the European Commission, DGXII, Human Potential Programme, High Level Scientific Conferences.

  • 1998-2001 - Scientific coordinator of LARFLAST (Learning Foreign Language Scientific Terminology) , a Copernicus'98 JRP funded by the European Commission.

  • 1999 - Project leader of "Internet technologies for document classification", with Bulgarian fund "Structural and Technological Policy", Call'98 for projects oriented to the 5FP of EC.

  • 1996-1998 - Principal investigator in DBR-MAT: a Joint German-Bulgarian-Romanian Project in Knowledge Based Machine Aided Translation, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (Germany), second phase of DB-MAT (1992-95). The Bulgarian team was engaged with a sophisticated modul for generation of natural language explanations in Bulgarian from an underlying knowledge base of conceptual graphs.

  • 1995-1996 - Principal investigator in DOC-GEN: Generation of NL Hypertext Documentation from the Internal Specifications of the OO CASE-Tool OBLOG (performed for the Portuguese company OBLOG Software S.A.).

  • 1992-1995 - Principal investigator in DB-MAT: a Joint German-Bulgarian Project in Knowledge Based Machine Aided Translation, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (Germany).

  • 1995-1997 - Project leader of CGLex: A Natural Language - Based Tool for Conceptual Graph Acquisition, funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund under contract I- 420/94.

EDITOR OF PROCEEDINGS OF (MAJOR) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

  • G. Angelova, R. Mitkov, I. Nikolova and I. Temnikova (Editors). Proceedings of the International Conference RANLP-19, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2019, Varna, Bulgaria, 2–4 September 2019, Published by Incoma Ltd., Shoumen. ISSN 1313-8502. The proceedings of RANLP-19 is freely available at the site of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Shumen, Bulgaria) and the ACL Anthology. It is indexed by SCOPUS with SJR 0,143.

  • G. Angelova, K. Bontcheva, R. Mitkov, I. Nikolova and I. Temnikova (Editors). Proceedings of the International Conference RANLP-17, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2017, Varna, Bulgaria, 4–6 September 2017, Published by Incoma Ltd., Shoumen. ISSN 1313-8502. The proceedings of RANLP-17 is freely available at the site of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Shumen, Bulgaria) and the ACL Anthology. It is indexed by SCOPUS with SJR 0,143.

  • G. Angelova, K. Bontcheva, R. Mitkov, and N. Nikolov (Editors). Proceedings of the International Conferences RANLP-01, RANLP-03, RANLP-05, RANLP-07, RANLP-09, RANLP-11, RANLP-13, and RANLP-15 Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Borovets and Hissar, Bulgaria, Published by Incoma Ltd., Shoumen. ISSN 1313-8502. The proceedings of RANLP-09, RANLP-11, RANLP-13 and RANLP-2015 are freely available at the ACL Anthology and are indexed by SCOPUS. See the SJR rank of RANLP here

  • S. Margenov, G. Angelova and G. Agre (Editors). Innovative Approaches and Solutions in Advanced Intelligent Systems. Volume 648 in the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence", Springer 2016, ISSN:1860-949X, SJR: 0.187

  • N. Nicolov, G. Angelova and R. Mitkov (Editors). Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V. Selected papers from RANLP-07. Volume 309 in the series "Current Issues in Linguistic Theory", John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2009.

  • N. Nicolov, K. Bontcheva, G. Angelova and R. Mitkov (Editors). Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing III and IV. Selected papers from RANLP-03 and RANLP-05. Volumes 260 and 292 in the series "Current Issues in Linguistic Theory", John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

  • U. Priss, D. Corbett, and G. Angelova. (Editors) Conceptual Structures: Integration and Interfaces. Proc. of the 10th Intern. Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS-2002), Borovets, Bulgaria. Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2393, July 2002.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

  • Boytcheva, S., Angelova, G., Angelov, Z., Tcharaktchiev, D., Vodenicharov, V.. Enrichment of EHR with Linked Open Data for Risk Factors Identification. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2019, ISBN:978-1-4503-7149-0/19/06, DOI:10.1145/3345252.3345290, 84-90.

  • Boytcheva, S., Angelova, G., Angelov, Z.. Risk Factors Extraction from Clinical Texts based on Linked Open Data. In Proc. of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2019, INCOMA Ltd, 2019, ISBN:978-954-452-056-4, ISSN:2603-2813, DOI:https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_019, 161-167.

  • Mitkova, Z., Mitov, K., Valov, V., Manova, M., Savova, A., Kamusheva, M., Tcharaktchiev, D., Angelov, Z., Angelova, G., Petrova, G.. Incretins and SGLT-2i Therapy of Type 2 Diabetes – Real Life Study of Their Therapeutic and Economic Effects. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 10:364, FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, AVENUE DU TRIBUNAL FEDERAL 34, LAUSANNE, CH-1015, SWITZERLAND, 2019, ISSN:1663 9812, DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2019.00364, 1-8.

  • Tachkov, K., Mitov, K., Mitkova, Z., Kamusheva, M., Dimitrova, M., Petkova, V., Savova, A., Doneva, M., Tcarukciev, D., Valov, V., Angelova, G., Manova, M., Petrova, G.. Improved quality of diabetes control reduces complication costs in Bulgaria. BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT, 33, 1, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2019, ISSN:1310-2818, DOI:10.1080/13102818.2019.1604160, 814-820.

  • Boytcheva, S., Angelova, G., Angelov, Z., Tcharaktchiev, D.. Data Mining and Analytics for Exploring Bulgarian Diabetic Register. Communications in Computer and Information Science series, Volume of Selected papers from DAMDID conference, 822, Springer, 2018, ISSN:1865-0929, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96553-6_2, 19-33.

  • Kanishcheva, O., Nikolova, I., Angelova, G.. Evaluation of Automatic Tag Sense Disambiguation Using the MIRFLICKR Image Collection. Proceedings of he International Conference AIMSA 2018 Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11089, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2018, ISBN:978-3-319-99343-0, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99344-7_6, 60-72.

  • Kopev, D., Atanasov, A., Zlatkova, D., Hardalov, M., Koychev, I., Nikolova, I., Angelova, G.. Tweety at SemEval-2018 Task 2: Predicting Emojis using Hierarchical Attention Neural Networks and Support Vector Machine. Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2018), New Orleans, Louisiana, June 5–6, 2018, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018, ISBN:978-1-948087-20-9, 497-501.

  • Mitkova, Z., Mitov, K., Valov, V., Manova, M., Savova, A., Kamusheva, M., Tcharaktchiev, D., Angelov, Z., Angelova, G., Petrova, G.. Medical, social, and economic consequences of type 2 diabetes therapy with medicinal products from the group of DPP-4i, SGLT-2i, and GLP-1 RA. International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries, Letter to the Editor, Springer Medizin, 2018, ISSN:1998-3832, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13410-018-0657-7, 1-2.

  • Mitkova, Z., Valov, V., Mitov, K., Manova, M., Savova, A., Kamusheva, M., Tcharaktchiev, D., Angelov, Z., Angelova, G., Petrova, G.. PDB43 - The Costs and Results of Incretins' and SGLT-2I Diabetes Therapy in Bulgaria. Value in Health, October 2018 Vol. 2, Supplement 3, Elsevier, 2018, ISSN:1098-3015, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2018.09.748

  • Stefchov, Е., Angelova, G., Nakov, P.. Towards Constructing a Corpus for Studying the Effects of Treatments and Substances Reported in PubMed Abstracts. Proceedings of the International Conference AIMSA 2018 Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11089, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2018, ISBN:978-3-319-99343-0, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99344-7_11, 115-125.

  • Boytcheva, S., Angelova, G., Angelov, Z., Tcharaktchiev, D.. Integrating Data Analysis Tools for Better Treatment of Diabetic Patients. Proceedings of the XIX International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains (DAMDID/RCDL 2017), Moscow, Russia, October 11-14, 2017., Vol-2022, CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), 2017, ISSN:1613-0073, 229-236.

  • Boytcheva, S., Angelova, G., Angelov, Z., Tcharaktchiev, D.. Mining comorbidity patterns using retrospective analysis of big collection of outpatient records. Health Information Science and Systems, 5, 3, Springer International Publishing, 2017, ISSN:2047-2501, DOI:10.1007/s13755-017-0024-y, 1-9.

  • Boytcheva, S., Nikolova, I., Angelova, G.. Mining Association Rules from Clinical Narratives. Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017, Varna, Bulgaria, 4-6 Sep 2017, INCOMA Ltd.,Shoumen, BULGARIA, 2017, ISBN:978-954-452-049-6, ISSN:2603-2813, DOI:10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_019, 130-138.

  • Angelova, G., Nikolova, I., Angelov, Zh.. Embedding language technologies in a data analytics tool. Advances in Bulgarian Sciences, National Centre for Information and Documentation, 2016, ISSN:1314-3565, 29-42.

  • Boytcheva, S., Angelova, G., Angelov, Z. and D. Tcharaktchiev. Mining Clinical Events to Reveal Patterns and Sequences. In: Innovative Approaches and Solutions in Advanced Intelligent Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence 648, Springer 2016, 95-111.

  • Kanishcheva, O., Angelova, G., Nikolov, S.. Towards Translation of Tags in Large Annotated Image Collections. In Proceedings Int. Conference "Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications" (AIMSA) 2016, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 9883, Springer 2016, 140-150.

  • Kanishcheva, O., Angelova, G.. About Sense Disambiguation of Image Tag in Large Annotated Image Collections . In: Innovative Approaches and Solutions in Advanced Intelligent Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence 648, Springer 2016.

  • Nikolova, I., Boytcheva, S., Angelova, G., Angelov, Z.. Combining Structured and Free Textual Data of Diabetic Patients’ Smoking Status. Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications (AIMSA 2016), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 9883, Springer, 2016, 1-11.

  • Nikolova, I., Dicheva, D., Agre, G., Angelov, Z., Angelova, G., Dichev Ch., Madzharov, D.. Exploring the USE of Resources in the Educational Site UCHA.SE. Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications (AIMSA 2016), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 9883, Springer 2016.

  • Nikolova, I., Dicheva, D., Agre, G., Angelov, Z., Angelova, G., Dichev, Ch., Madzharov, D.. Emerging Applications of Educational Data Mining in Bulgaria: The Case of UCHA.SE. In: Innovative Approaches and Solutions in Advanced Intelligent Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence 648, Springer, 2016, 113-131.

  • D. Tcharaktchiev, S. Zacharieva, G. Angelova, et al. Building a Bulgarian National Registry of Patients with Diabetes Mellitus. Journal of Social Medicine, 2, Research Society of Social Medicine, Informatics and Health Management, 2015, ISSN1310–1757, 19-21, available here (in Bulgarian).

  • Angelova, G. Automatic Ontology Acquisition from Text: How Far Can We Progress? In: Dynamic Being - Essays in Process-Relational Ontology, Edited by Vesselin Petrov and Adam C. Scarfe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, ISBN:978-1-4438-7695-7, 19, 364-382.

  • Dichev, Ch., Dicheva, D., Agre, G., Angelova, G.. Trends and Opportunities in Computer Science OER Development. Cybernetics and Information Technologies, 15, 3, 2015, ISSN:1311-9702, DOI:10.1515/cait-2015-0045, 114-126.

  • Dicheva, D., Dichev, Ch., Agre, G., Angelova, G.. Gamification in Education: A Systematic Mapping Study. Educational Technology & Society, 18, 3, 2015, ISSN:1176-3647.

  • Dobreva, M., Angelova, G., Agre, G.. Bridging the Gap between Digital Libraries and eLearning. Cybernetics and Information Technologies, 15, 4, 2015, ISSN:1311-9702, DOI:10.1515/cait-2015-0057, 92-110.

  • Kanishcheva O., G. Angelova. A Pipeline Approach to Image Auto-Tagging Refinement. The 7th Balkan Conference on Informatics Conference, ACM, 2015, ISSN:978-1-4503-3335-1, DOI:10.1145/2801081.2801108

  • Kanishcheva O., G. Angelova. About Emotion Identification in Visual Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of RANLP-2015 Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Shoumen, Bulgaria, 2015, ISSN:1313-8502, 258-265.

  • Dichev Ch., Dicheva D., Angelova G. and Agre G. From Gamification to Gameful Design and Gameful Experience in Learning. Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Vol. 14, № 4, Sofia, 2014, 80-100, ISSN 1311-9702.

  • Nikolova, I., D. Tcharaktchiev, S. Boytcheva, Z. Angelov and G. Angelova. Applying Language Technologies on Healthcare Patient Records for Better Treatment of Bulgarian Diabetic Patients. In: G. Agre et al. (Eds.): AIMSA 2014, Springer Int. Publ. Switzerland, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 8722, 2014, 92–103, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-10554-3_9, ISSN: 0302-9743. The paper was awarded the Best Paper Award of AIMSA 2014.

  • Temnikova, I., W. A. Baumgartner Jr., N. D. Hailu, I. Nikolova, T. Mcenery, A. Kilgarriff, G. Angelova and K. B. Cohen. Sublanguage Corpus Analysis Toolkit: a Tool for Assessing the Representativeness and Sublanguage Characteristics of Corpora. In Nicoletta Calzolari et. all (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), 26-31 May 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, Publisher European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 1714-1718, ISBN 978-2-9517408-8-4

 

A longer list of publications is available here.

 

Last Revised: October 2019

Galia Angelova