Prof. dr. Dan Tufiş    

Research interests | International & National Research Projects | Program Committees

• Artificial Intelligence
• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Translation
• Language Technologies
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Understanding and Generation
• Knowledge Representation
• Semantic Web

International research projects

Projects in-progress

• CLARIN - Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (INFRA-2007-2.2-01, 212230)
  • coordinator: Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • duration: 2008 - 2010
• FlaRENet - Fostering Language Resources Network (TN, eContentplus 617001)
  • coordinator: University of Pisa, Italy
  • duration: 2008 - 2010
• COST A31: Stability and Adaptation of Classification Systems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • coordinator: CRLAO, Paris, France
  • duration: 2007 - 2010

Past projects

• SEE-ERA.NET - Building Language Resources and Translation Models for Machine Translation focused on South Slavic and Balkan Languages (ICT 10503 RP) 2007 - 2008
• WISE - An Electronic Marketplace to Support Pairs of Less Widely Studied European Languages (BSEC 009 / 05.2007) 2007 - 2008
• Collocations en contexte - extraction et analyse contrastive (AUF 2091RR703) 2006 - 2008
• ProLearn - PROfessional LEARNing (NoE FP6- 507310) 2004-2007
• KNOWLEDGE-WEB (NoE FP6-507482) 2004-2007
• RomNetEra - ROManian Inventory and NETworking for Integration in ERA (SSA FP6-510475) 2004-2006
• ARS-ROCOCO - Acquiring Reading Skills in Romanian by Comparable Corpora (bilateral project with the British Academy) 2004-2005
• DICO-EAST - Dictionary consultation for research and education (bilateral project with the University of Geneve) 2003-2004
• FF-POIROT - Financial Fraud Prevention-Oriented Information Resources using Ontology Technology (STREP IST-2001-38248) 2002-2005
• EURO-CITIZEN - Promoting European intercultural education, cross-national cooperation, and enhancing European awareness among citizens of Europe (FP5 eContent 22089) 2002-2005
• BalkaNet - Design and Development of a Multilingual Balkan WordNet (FP5, IST-2000-29388) 2001-2004
• DICOPRO - Trilateral Lexicographic Project with ISSCO - Geneva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; 2000-2003
• ELSNET - European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies (FP5, IST-1999-12127) 2000-2002
• ATAMIRI - Machine Translation Based on Trivalent Logic (Trilateral Project with Union Latine, France & University of La Paz, Bolivia) 2000-2001
• LARFLAST - Learning Foreign Language Scientific Terminology (INCO-Copernicus 977074) 1999-2001
• TELRI-II - Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (EC Concerted Action PL977085) 1999-2001
• ELAN - European Language Activity Network (MLIS Project 121) 1998-2001
• CADBFR - Construction Automatique de Dictionnaire Bilingue Franco-Roumain (AUPELF-UREF) 1999-2000
• AMASE - Agent based Mobile Acces for Information Services (EC ACTS AC346) 1998-1999
• CONCEDE - Consortium for Central European Dictionary Encoding (INCO-Copernicus PL961142) 1998-2000
• FRANCIL - Réseau FRANCophone de l'Ingénierie de la Langue (bilateral AUPELF-UREF project with LIMSI/CNRS) 1998-2000
• HEADGEN - Head-Driven Generator for Unification Grammars (NATO research project, with LIMSI - Paris) 1998
• ROMANIAN INTERNET ACADEMY - European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies (bilateral project with International Centre for Advanced Studies in Information Technology, Washington, SUA) 1995-1999
• ELSNET Goes EAST - European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies (COPERNICUS Concerted Action 200) 1995-1998
• TELRI-I - Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (EC Concerted Action) 1995-1997
• MULTEXT-EAST - Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora for Central and Eastern European Languages (EC COPERNICUS 106) 1995-1997
• PAIL - General AI Educational Environment (bilateral project with IDSIA - Lugano, Switzerland) 1993-1995
• EGLU - Unification-based Platform for Parsing, Transfer and Generation of Natural Language (NSF FLUENT-2 project with George Mason University-Fairfax and Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Boston, USA) 1993-1994
• KRIL - Knowledge-based Interlingual Generator (bilateral project with the ISSCO Institute, Geneve, Switzerland) 1993-1994
• ELSNET - European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies (CEC ESPRIT 6295) 1991-1995
• RETA & ERTA - Russian-English and English-Russian Assisted Translator (bilateral project with NPO-TPS Rusia) 1990-1992

National research projects

Projects in-progress

• STAR - A System for Machine Translation for Romanian (PN2, Idei)
  • coordinator: Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
  • duration: 2008 - 2011
• SIR-RESDEC - Open Domain Question Answering System for Romanian and English (PN2, D11007/18.09.2007)
  • coordinator: Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
  • duration: 2007 - 2010
• eDTLR - The Romanian Thesaurus Dictionary in electronic form (PN2, D91013/18.09.2007)
  • coordinator: Faculty of Computer Science, UAIC
  • duration: 2007 - 2010

Past projects

• ROTEL - Intelligent systems for the Semantic Web, based on logics, ontologies and language technologies (CEEX 29) 2005 - 2008
• ACQ-MULT - Acquisition and use of multilingual lexical resources (Achiziţia şi utilizarea cunoştinţelor lexicale multilingve) (Romanian Academy project) 2004-2005
• IS-KS - Strategies and Solutions for Information Society-Knowledge Society in Romania (INFOSOC) 2002
• SI-SC - Information Society - Knowledge Society Societatea Informaţională - Societatea Cunoaşterii (fundamental project of the Romanian Academy) 2001-2002
• LINGUASTAT - Integrated Set of Tools for Statistical Language Processing (Romanian Academy project) 1998-2001
• WEBLEX DIC - Generator of an XML-encoded Lexical Database from a Typographical Dictionary (Romanian Academy prioritary project) 1998-1999
• GULIVER - Generalized LR Parser for Unification Grammars (national research project) 1991-1993
• PC-IURES - Commercial version of IURES for personal computers (national research project) 1988-1991
• PARADIGM - Paradigmatic Morphology Learning System (national research project) 1987-1988
• TC-LISP - An Integrated Environment for LISP Programming: interpreter, compiler, debugger (national research project) 1984-1987
• IURES - System for Unrestricted Question-Answering in Natural Language (Romanian) (national research project) 1982-1983
• SDLR - Prototype for Natural Language (Romanian) Dialogue (national research project) 1981-1982

Member in Program Committees

2009
• LTC2009 - 4th Language and Technology Conference, 2009, Poznan, Poland, in November 6-8
• SYNASC2009 - 11th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, Romania September 26-29, 2009
• Workshop on Multilingual resources, technologies and evaluation for central and Eastern European languages at RANLP2009, 17-18 September 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria
• EMNLP 2009 - 14th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Suntec, Singapore, August 6-7, 2009
• ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Suntec, Singapore, August 2-7, 2009
• SpeD 2009 - 5th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, Constanta, Romania, June 18-21, 2009
• IIS 2009 - Joint venture of the 17th International Conference Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) and the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Kraków, Poland, June 15-18, 2009
• NLPCS 2009 - 6th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science, Milan, Italy, May 6-7, 2009
• EACL-SMT 2009 - EACL 2009 4th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, March 30-31, 2009


2008
• e-Humanities - an emerging discipline - 2008 - Workshop in the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Indianapolis, USA, December 7-12, 2008
• ConsILR-2008 - Atelier de lucru Resurse Lingvistice Româneşti şi Instrumente pentru Prelucrarea Limbii Române, Iaşi, 19-20 noiembrie, 2008
• FASSBL 2008 - 6th International Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 25-28, 2008
• LDALSK 2008 - 1st International Workshop on Language Diversity and the Acquisition of Linguistic-Semantic Knowledge, Wroclaw, Poland, September 18-19, 2008
• AIMSA 2008 - 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Varna, Bulgaria, September 4-6, 2008
• CogALex-08 - SIGLEX Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, Manchester, UK, August 24, 2008
• ECIT 2008 (& section chair) - 5th European Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, Iasi, Romania, July 10-12, 2008
• IIS 2008 - 16th International Conference Intelligent Information Systems, Zakopane, Poland, June 16-18, 2008
• NLPCS 2008 - 5th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Systems, Barcelona, Spain, June 12-13, 2008
• LREC 2008 (& section chair) - 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marrakech, Maroc, May 28-30, 2008
• ICCC 2008 (& section chair) - 3rd International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control, Felix Spa, Romania, May 15-17, 2008
• DTIL 2008 (& section chair) - Seminar Internaţional Instrumente pentru asistarea traducerii, Academia Română, Bucureşti, februarie 28-29, 2008
• GWC 2008 - 4th Global WordNet Conference, Szeged, Hungary, January 22-25, 2008


2007
• ConsILR-2007 - Atelier internaţional Resurse Lingvistice Româneşti şi Instrumente pentru Prelucrarea Limbii Române, Iaşi, 14-15 decembrie, 2007
• e-Humanities - an emerging discipline - Workshop in the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, Bangalore, India, December 10-13, 2007
• LTC 2007 - 3rd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan, Poland, October 5-7, 2007
• ROCHI 2007 - 4th National Conference on Computer Human Interaction, Constanţa, Romania, September 20-21, 2007
• SYNASC 2007 - 9th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timişoara, Romania, September 26-29, 2007
• RANLP 2007 - Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Borovets, Bulgaria, September 24-30, 2007
• EUROLAN 2007 - 8th Summer School on NLP & HLT: Semantics, Opinion and Sentiment in Text, Iasi, Romania, July 23 - August 3, 2007
• ASOS 2007 - Workshop on Applications of Semantics, Opinion and Sentiments in eLearning, Iasi, Romania, July 23-27,2007
• EUROLAN DC 2007 - Doctoral Consortium at the 8th EUROLAN Summer School, Iasi, Romania, July 30 - August 2, 2007
• WMT 2007 - 2nd ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Prague, Czech Republic, June 23, 2007
• NLPCS 2007 - 4th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Systems, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 12-13, 2007
• SpeD 2007 (& section chair) - 4th International Conference on Speech Technology and Human - Computer Dialogue, Iasi, Romania, May 10-12, 2007
• IWIC 2007 - 1st International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, January 2007, Kyoto, Japan, January 25-26, 2007


2006
• e-Humanities - an emerging area of concern - Workshop in the 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 4-6, 2006
• ConsILR-2006 - Atelier internaţional Resurse Lingvistice Româneşti şi Instrumente pentru Prelucrarea Limbii Române, Iaşi, 3 noiembrie, 2006
• FASSBL 2006 - 5th International Conference Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 18-20, 2006
• IS-LTC 2006 - 5th Slovenian and 1st International Conference on Language Technologies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 9 - 10, 2006
• SYNASC 2006 - 8th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, Romania, September 26-29, 2006
• ROCHI 2006 - A treia ediţie a Conferinţei Naţionale în domeniul Interacţiunii Om-Calculator, Academia de Studii Economice Bucureşti, Romania, 21-22 septembrie 2006
• MLRI 2006 - COLING-ACL 2006 Workshop on Multilingual Language Resources and Interoperability, Sydney, Australia, July 23, 2006
• IES-2006 - International workshop on Intelligent Embedded Systems, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, July 20, 2006
• IST-MA 2006 - International workshop on IST-Multidisciplinary Approaches, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, June 27, 2006
• ICCC 2006 (& section chair) - 2nd International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control, Felix Spa, Romania, June 1-3, 2006
• LREC 2006 (& section chair) - 5th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Genoa, Italy, May 24-26, 2006
• CLKI 2006 - EACL 2006 2nd Workshop on Cross-Language Knowledge Induction, Trento, Italy, April 3, 2006
• ROMAND 2006 - EACL 2006 4th Workshop on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data, Trento, Italy, April 3, 2006
• GWC 2006 - 3rd Global WordNet Conference, Jeju Island, Korea, January 22-26, 2006


2005
• BCI 2005 - 2nd Balkan Conference in Informatics, Ohrid, Macedonia, November 17-19, 2005
• ConsILR-2005 - Atelier internaţional Resurse Lingvistice Româneşti şi Instrumente pentru Prelucrarea Limbii Române, Iaşi, 3 noiembrie, 2005
• OL-KWM 2005 - International Symposium on Organizational Learning and Knowledge Work Management, Bucharest, Romania, October 13, 2005
• SYNASC 2005 - 7th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, Romania, September 25 - 29, 2005
• ROCHI 2005 - A doua ediţie a Conferinţei Naţionale în domeniul Interacţiunii Om-Calculator, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 15-16 septembrie 2005
• EUROLAN 2005 - 7th Summer School on NLP & HLT: The Multilingual Web: Resources, Technologies, and Prospects, Cluj Napoca, Romania, July 25 - August 6, 2005
• CLKI 2005 - Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop at the 7th EUROLAN Summer School on NLP & HLT, Cluj Napoca, Romania, August 2-4, 2005
• RFN 2005 - Workshop and Kick-off Meeting on Romance FrameNet at the 7th EUROLAN Summer School on NLP & HLT, Cluj Napoca, Romania, July 26-28, 2005
• WPT 2005 - ACL 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Creating Corpora and Tools for Languages with Scarce Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, June 29-30, 2005
• NLUCS 2005 - 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science, Miami, USA, May 24-28, 2005
• SpeD 2005 - 3rd International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialog, Cluj Napoca, Romania, May 13-14, 2005
• LTC 2005 - 2nd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan, Poland, April 21-23, 2005


2004
• E-Comm-Line 2004 - 5th European Conference on e-business/ e-commerce/ e-learning/ e-work/ e-government/ e-democracy/ e-health/ e-mediary, e-inclusion / BB-broad-band, on-line services / e-marine / e-banking, adaptnetics, and their influences on the economic/ social environment and contributions to ERA, Bucharest, Romania, October 21-22, 2004
• SYNASC 2004 - 6th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, Romania, September 26-30, 2004
• ROCHI 2004 - Prima Conferinţă Naţională de Interacţiune Om-Calculator, Bucureşti, Romania, September 23-24, 2004
• ED 2004 - Workshop on Enhancing and using electronic dictionaries at COLING 2004, Geneva, Switzerland, August 29, 2004
• MLRI 2004 - Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources at COLING 2004, Geneva, Switzerland, August 28, 2004
• ROSYCS 2004 (general chair) - Romanian Symposium on Computer Science, Iasi, Romania, July 21-23, 2004
• ECIT 2004 - Third European Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, Iasi, Romania, July 21-23, 2004
• SENSEVAL 3 - ACL-SIGLEX Evaluation exercises for Word Sense Disambiguation & ACL Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text, Barcelona, Spain, July 25-26, 2004
• LREC 2004 (& section chair) - 4th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 26-28, 2004
• NLUCS 2004 - 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science, Porto, Portugal, April 13, 2004
• Academician Mihai Drăgănescu - The 75th Anniversary, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, April 4, 2004


2003
• BLRT 2003 - BCI Workshop on Balkan Language Resources and Tools, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 21, 2003
• BCI 2003 - 1st Balkan Conference on Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 21-23, 2003
• SYNASC 2003 - 5th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, Romania, October 1-4, 2003
• KES 2003 - 7th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, University of Oxford, UK, September 3-5, 2003
• EUROLAN 2003 - 6th Summer School on NLP & HLT: The Semantic Web and Language Technology: Its Potential and Practicalities, Bucharest, Romania, July 28 - August 8, 2003
• FLAIRS 2003 - FLAIRS 2003 Special Track on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, St. Augustine, Florida, USA, May 11-15, 2003
• BUPT ACL 2003 - HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, Edmonton, Canada, May 31, 2003
• EACL 2003 - 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary, April 15-17, 2003


2002
• SYNASC 2002 - 4th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, Romania, October 9-12, 2002
• AIMSA 2002 - 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Varna, Bulgaria, September 4-6, 2002
• ECIT 2002 (& section chair) - 2nd European Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, Iasi, Romania, July 17-20, 2002
• LREC 2002 - 3rd Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain, May 29-31, 2002


2001 - 1996
• EUROLAN 2001 - 5th Summer School on NLP & HLT: Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, Iasi, Romania, July 30 - August 11, 2001
• AIMSA 2000 - 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Varna, Bulgaria, September 20-23, 2000
• LR-LCE 2000 - Forumul ''Limba Română - Limbă a Comunităţii Europene'', Chişinău, 14-15 Aprilie 2000
• WITREC 2000 - International Conference on Web Information Technologies: Research, Education and Commerce, Montpellier, France, May 2-4, 2000
• LREC 2000 - 2nd Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Athens, Greece, May 31 - June 2, 2000
• EUROLAN 1999 - 4th Summer School on NLP & HLT: Lexical Semantics and Multilinguality, Iasi, Romania, July 19-31, 1999
• AIMSA 1998 - 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 21-23, 1998
• Coling 1998 - 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 10-14, 1998
• ALLC-ACH 1998 - Joint Annual Conference of the ALLC and the ACH, Debrecen, Hungary, July 5-10, 1998
• EMNLP 1998 - 3rd International Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Granada, Spain, June 2, 1998
• RANLP 1997 - 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, September 7-9, 1997
• EUROLAN 1997 - 3rd Summer School on NLP & HLT: Corpus Linguistics, Tusnad, Romania, July 13-26, 1997
• AIMSA 1996 - 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 1996
• Coling 1996 - 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 5-9, 1996
• ALLC/ACH 1996 - Joint Annual Conference of the ACH and the ALLC, University of Bergen, Norway, June 25-29, 1996
• LT 1996 - 1st Awareness EC Seminar on Language Technology, Bucharest, Romania, January 28-30, 1996
• RANLP 1995 - 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Velingrad, Bulgaria, September 13-16, 1995
• EUROLAN 1995 - 2nd Summer School on NLP & HLT: Language and Perception: Representations and Processes, Iasi, Romania, July 18-28, 1995
• AI-Ed 1995 - International Conference on AI Education: Goals, Courses and Resources, British Society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, Sheffield, UK, April 3-4, 1995
• PAIL 1994: International Summer School: Computer-Aided Instruction in Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest, Romania, August 1-5, 1994
• EUROLAN 1993 - 1st Summer School on NLP & HLT: Natural Language Processing and Logic Programming, Iasi, Romania, July 19-29, 1993
• AIMSA 1992 - 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 1992
• EACL 1991 - 5th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Berlin, Germany, April 9-11, 1991
• EACL 1989 - 4th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Manchester, UK, April 10-12, 1989
• Coling 1986 - 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, University of Bonn, Germany, August 25-29, 1986