Dr. Verginica BARBU MITITELU

General info

• 2011-2013 postdoctoral student at the Romanian Academy. Theme of research: Semantic and Derivational Network for Romanian
• 2009 Ph.D. (Summa cum laude) in Philology at the University of Bucharest. Thesis title: Semantic Relations (synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy). A Theoretical and Computational Linguistics Perspective (in Romanian)
• 2002 MA in Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Bucharest
• 2000 Erasmus student at Universität Wien
• 2000 BA in Philology at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters

Research stages

• 28th June – 10 July 2014: NetWordS short visit grant at Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Tübingen Universität, Germany
• July 2012: Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille, France
• October 2011: Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian, Sofia, Bulgaria
• September 2011: Human Language Technology Group, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy;
• Nov 2005-Feb 2006: Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton, UK
• Oct-Dec 2001, Apr-June 2002: Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Tübingen Universität, Germany

Training schools

• 8-12 February 2021 – EuroLan-2021 training school on linked data for linguistics
• 27 June 2016 – 1 July 2016 – PARSEME second training school, La Rochelle, France
• 19-23 January 2015 – PARSEME first training school, Prague, the Czech Republic
• 5-16 September 2005 – RoCoLi summer school in Computational Linguistics, Sinaia, Romania
• 25 July -6 August 2005 – EuroLAN Summer School, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• 8-22 September 2002 – Fall school in Empirical Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Sozopol, Bulgaria

Work experience

• since Nov 2017 senior researcher II at RACAI
• 2014-Oct 2017 senior researcher III at RACAI
• 2003-2014 senior researcher at RACAI
• 2003-2007 senior researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy (part time)
• 2002-2003 English teacher at School 202
• 2000-2002 English teacher at Grup Şcolar “Iuliu Maniu”

Evaluation activities

• PCCA 2013 – evaluator and rapporteur
• COST Open Call OC-2015-1 – role: Independent External Expert
• COST Open Call OC-2016-1 – role: Independent External Expert
• COST Open Call OC-2017-1 – role: Independent External Expert
• PCCDI 2017 – evaluator and rapporteur
• PED 2019 – evaluator and rapporteur
• ELG 2020
• PCE 2020 – evaluator and rapporteur

Organizatoric activities

• ConsILR 2020, online, 14-15 Dec 2020
• 4th ReTeRom workshop, online, 16 dec 2020
• Approaches to Discourse-Relational Devices (DRDs): Textual Connectors, Discourse Markers, Modal Particles, Bucharest, 15-16 Oct 2019
• Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and WordNet (MWE-WN 2019), Florence, 2 August 2019, at ACL 2019
• ELRC workshop, Bucharest, 23 March 2016
• 8th Global WordNet Conference, at Bucharest, Romania, 27-30 January 2016 (with Christiane Fellbaum, Piek Vossen, Corina Forascu)
• ERRARE2015, at Sinaia, Romania, 12-13 September 2015 (with Ioana Vasilescu, Lori Lamel, Dan Tufis, Gilles Adda, Joseph Mariani, Sophie Rosset, Maria Candea, Martine Adda-Decker)
• Semantic Relations. Theory and Applications, at LREC2010, Valletta, Malta, 18 May 2010 (with Viktor Pekar and Eduard Barbu)
• Semantic Relations-II. Enhancing Resources and Applications, at LREC2012, Istanbul, Turkey, 22 May 2012 (with Octavian Popescu and Viktor Pekar)

Languages

• English (W, R, S – fluent)
• German – Zertifikat Deutsch
• French (W, R, S – some)
• Spanish (W, R, S – some)

Acknowledgements

• 2012 – Romanian Academy Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu prize (for Atlasul limbii române pe regiuni. Sinteză – vol. II)
• 2013 – Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, 20-23 August 2013, Chişinău, the Republic of Moldova (for the paper Increasing the Effectiveness of the Romanian Wordnet in NLP applications)

Research

Research interests | International & National Research Projects | Program Committees

• Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD)
• Multiword Expressions (MWEs)
• Universal Dependencies (UD)
• Lexical semantics
• Corpus Linguistics
• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Translation
• Knowledge Representation

International research projects

• LITHME (Language in the Human-Machine Era) COST Action – MC member
• CURLICAT (Curated Multilingual Language Resources for CEF AT) – CEF AT
• ELG (European Language Grid)
• European network for Web-centred linguistic data science (CA 18209) – Nexus Linguarum
• Translation Automation Services for EU Council Presidency (2018-EU-IA-0079)
• Multilingual Resources for CEF.AT in the legal domain (2017-EU-IA-0136) (MARCELL)
• Enhancing Language Resources with Derivationally Linked Multiword Expressions (PI) – bilateral project with the Department of Computational Linguistics of the Institute for Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• Enhanced Knowledge Bases for Bulgarian and Romanian (PI) – bilateral project with the Department of Computational Linguistics of the Institute for Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• Adding Morpho-Semantic Information to the Bulgarian and Romanian Wordnets (PI) – bilateral project with the Department of Computational Linguistics of the Institute for Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• DruKoLA – Sprachvergleich korpustechnologisch. Deutsch – Rumänisch (funded by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation)
• PARSEME Cost Action– „PARSing and Multi-word Expressions (IC1207 COST Action)”
• METANET4U – Enhancing the European Linguistic Infrastructure (CIP-ICT-PSP.2010.6.1, 270893)
• ACCURAT – Analysis and evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (FP7, 248347)
• CLARIN – Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, 2008 – 2011
• REGEN – Rapid item generation – project at the Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton
• Atlas Linguarum Europae (ALE) – Central Secretary (2004-2005)
• The Artificial Intelligence Terminology – Realiter project
• BalkaNet – Design and Development of a Multilingual Balkan WordNet (FP5, IST-2000-29388) 2001-2004

National research projects

• Roboții și societatea. Sisteme cognitive pentru Roboți Personali și Vehicule Autonome (ROBIN) (72PCCDI/2018)
• Resurse și tehnologii pentru dezvoltarea interfețelor om-mașină în limba română (ReTeRom) (73PCCDI/2018)
• SSPR – Analizor sintactic (pentru limba română) bazat pe cunoștințe semantice (director de proiect) / EN: Semantics-driven Syntactic Parser (for Romanian) (PN-II-RU-TE-2014)
• ACCURAT-RO – Analiza şi evaluarea corpusurilor comparabile pentru domenii ale Traducerii Automate cu mai puţine resurse (PN2, Capacităţi), coordinator: Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 2010 – 2012
• STAR – A System for Machine Translation for Romanian (PN2, Idei) 2009 – 2011
• CLARIN-RO – Infrastructură pentru resurse lingvistice interoperabile pentru limba română (PN2, Capacităţi) 2009 – 2011
• eDTLR – The Romanian Thesaurus Dictionary in electronic form (PN2, D91013/18.09.2007) 2007 – 2010
• SIR-RESDEC – Open Domain Question Answering System for Romanian and English (PN2, D11007/18.09.2007) 2007 – 2010
• ROTEL – Intelligent systems for the Semantic Web, based on logics, ontologies and language technologies (CEEX 29) 2005 – 2008
• Syntactic and semantic database in XML format: an HPSG representation of verb valences in Romanian – funded by CNCSIS
• Romanian Morphologic Dictionary in Electronic Format – funded by CNCSIS

Member in Program Committees

• GWC 2021
• the 17the edition of the MWE workshop, 2021
• EACL 2021 – track Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing
• Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Electronic Lexicons (MWE-LEX 2020)
• CogALex 2020
• CLiB 2020
• Global WordNet Conference 2019, Wroclaw, 23-27 July 2019
• The 4th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology (MUMTTT 2019), Malaga, 27 September 2019
• International Conference ‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology’ (Europhras 2019), Malaga, 25-27 September 2019
• NAACL-HLT 2019 – area Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing
• CLiB 2018– Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 28-29
• KnowRSH – Knowledge Resources for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities, September 7, 2017, Varna, Bulgaria
• CogALex 2016 – Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, Osaka, Japan, December, 12
• CLiB 2016 – Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 9
• RoCHI 2016 – Conferinta de Interactiune Om-Calculator, Iasi, Romania, 8-9 September
• GWC 2016 – 8th Global WordNet Conference, Bucharest, Romania, 27-30 January
• Errare 2015 – Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing, Sinaia, Romania, 11-13 September
• CLiB 2014 – Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 4, 2014
• CogALex 2012 – Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, Mumbai, India, December 15, 2012
• ConsILR 2010 – Resurse lingvistice și instrumente pentru prelucrarea limbii române, București, România, May, 6-7, 2010
• CogALex 2010 – Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon,Beijing, China, August 22, 2010
• CLUK 2006, Milton Keynes, UK, March 8-9, 2006

Member in Scientific Committees

• LREC 2020
• LREC 2018– Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Miyazaki, Japan, 7-12 May
• RONLP 2016, Anniversary Workshop: Written And Spoken Romanian Language In The Context Of New Information Technologies. Achievements And Prospects, Iaşi, Romania, March 24th, 2016
• LREC 2016, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, 23-28 May
• Errare 2015, Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing, Sinaia, Romania, 11-13 September
• LREC 2014 – Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, 28-30 May, 2014