Department of Mathematical Linguistics

Тheoretical and Contrastive Linguistics, Typology, Semantics, Evaluative Morphology, Aspectology, Writing Systems, Quantitative Methods in Linguistics, Computational Morphology, Computational Lexicography, Methodology of Linguistics.

Research and investigations in the field of Mathematical, Computational, Contrastive and Corpus Linguistics, Knowledge Representation, Human Language Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Discrete Mathematics. Basic results include creation of digital language resources & tools with a focus on Bulgarian: development of TEI-compliant lexical specifications for encoding and processing of digital corpora and lexica, comparable and multilingual corpora (parallel, annotated, and aligned) – MTE Bulgarian-English, Bulgarian-Polish, Bulgarian-Slovak, and Bulgarian-Polish-Lithuanian, lexical databases for integrated multilingual resources and mono- and bilingual digital dictionaries.

Digital Libraries and Services.

Digitization, Semantic Web, Ethnology, Folklore Studies, Culture Anthropology, Communities and Identities, Ethno-statistics, Museums and Archives, Digital Libraries.

Web-based learning environments, e-learning, adaptive learning, personalization of learning, virtual worlds and virtual learning, serious games, MOOC, digitization of cultural, historical and scientific heritage.

e-Learning, Virtual reality, 3D, Serious Games, Gamification, Interactive Learning Resources

Research, projects and developments in the field of statistical analysis techniques for IDS, coding theory, probability models, digital competences, mathematical and soft skills, e-learning, adaptive learning in web-based environments, personalization of learning and ICT-based approaches to improve learners' ability to learn.

Semantic Web, Digital Libraries and Content Management Systems, Programming, Databases, Digitalization, Digital Graphics

Multimedia Digital Libraries Services: Annotation and Semantic Indexing of Digital Objects, Metadata Management, Tools and Techniques for Navigation, Preview, Group, and Selection to Digital Objects/Collections and their Descriptions, Personalized and Adaptive Access to the Digital Content, etc., e-Learning Technologies and Standards, New Information Technologies and Environments for Distance Learning, Multimedia and Language Technologies, Knowledge and Semantic Web Technologies.

Mathematical Linguistics and Knowledge Processing, Human Language Technologies, Information Society Technologies, Knowledge Technologies and Management, Semantic WEB services, Semantic Information Processing, Digital Libraries and Content Management Systems, Algorithmics, Theory of Computation, Discrete Mathematics.

Ethnology, Folklore studies, Culture Anthropology, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Digital Libraries.

Computational Lexicography, Corpus Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics (esp. the Comparison of Slavic Languages), Ukrainian Studies, Traditional and Computational Dialectology, Semantic Web, Formal Modelling of Semantic Phenomena, Databases and Quantitative Methods in Linguistics, E-learning Systems and Content Development, Web Design and Computer Graphics, Modelling of Linguistic Information-Retrieval Systems.

Coding theory - optimal codes, equidistant codes, Data protection - steganography, watermarking, Information technologies -interdisciplinary methods, Databases, Semantic Web, Multimedia Digital Libraries and Content Management Systems, Methods of preservation and presentation of cultural heritage, Digitalization.

Research interests: computer networks, algorithms, e-learning, v-learning, learning personalization, multimedia libraries, digital presentation and preservation of scientific, historical and cultural heritage.

Computational Linguistics, (Statistical) Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing, Computational Morphology, Language Resources and Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning, Methodology of Linguistics.