About me

I am a linguist/researcher interested in design, creation and evaluation of digital language resources and their use in corpus linguistic research.

I currently split my time between Department of Slovene Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and Department for Artificial Intelligence at the Jožef Stefan Institute.

For more info, see my full CV here, or view my profiles on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

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Research topics

• Corpus annotation
• Dependency treebanks
• Language variation
• Formulaic language
• Discourse connectives
• Language technology

Current projects

• SPOT: Treebank-Driven Approach to the Study of Spoken Slovenian (Slovenian Research And Innovation Agency, 2022‒2024)
• UniDive: Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (CA21167 COST Action, 2022-2026)
• Language Resources and Technologies for Slovene (Slovenian Research And Innovation Agency, 2018-2024)

Past projects

• SLOKIT - Upgrading CLARIN.SI with a tool for corpus data analysis and summarization (2022-2023)
• Development of Slovene in a Digital Environment (2020-2023)
• ELEXIS – European Lexicographic Infrastructure (2020-2023)
• SLED - Monitor Corpus for Slovene and Related Language Resources (2021-2022)
• New grammar of contemporary standard Slovene: sources and methods (2017-2020)
• Collocations as a Basis for Language Description: Semantic and Temporal Perspectives (2017-2020)
• Slovene in the Palm of Your Hand (2017-2021)
• TextLink: Structuring Discourse in Multilingual Europe (2014-2018)
• Language Resources Hub (2014-2015)
• PARSEME: Parsing and multi-word expressions (2013-2017)
• Language Technology Seminars for Teachers (2013-2014)
• Communication in Slovene (2008-2013)

Publications

For a full list, please see the SICRIS database.

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Recent news

• October 2022: Very excited to learn that my postdoctoral project proposal ‘A Treebank-Driven Approach to the Study of Spoken Slovenian’ has been selected for funding.
• September 2022: Kick-off meeting of the UniDive COST Action on universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology. I am honoured to have been elected as a co-leader of the WG1 on Corpus Annotation.
• May 2022: Looking forward to the LREC 2022 in Marseille where I will be presenting a paper on spoken language treebanks (main conference) and a paper on the SSJ treebank extension (LAW workshop).
• March 2022: I was invited as a speaker at the ESFRI 20th anniversary conference to present the CLARIN infrastructure and its impact on my research work. The presentation was also featured as a CLARIN Impact Story.

News archive

October 2021: Kick-off meeting for project SLED: Monitor Corpus for Slovene and Related Language Resources.

July 2021: Launch of the DSDE Universal Dependencies annotation campaign aiming at 5,000 new manually parsed sentences for Slovenian.

April 2021: I co-organized the EACL 2021 Language Diversity Games as part of the Language Diversity Panel and Games event at EACL 2021.

March 2021: I joined the Development of Slovene in a Digital Environment project to work on SSJ UD treebank extension, CLASSLA-Stanza pipeline evaluation and GOS spoken corpus concordancer.