Atanas Georgiev Chanev

Date of Birth: 27.12.1981 Nationality: Bulgarian (+ Italian stay permit), EU citizen Address: BULGARIA, 4000 Plovdiv, 31 Ladjene Street, Floor 2, tel: (+359 32) 651531 www: http://polorovereto.unitn.it/~chanev/ e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

EDUCATION: PhD student in Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Italy; Advisor: Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento); Co-advisor: Alberto Lavelli (FBK-irst, Povo-Trento); External consultant: Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Participant in European Summer School in Logics, Language and Information 2005 (ESSLLI 2005), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Bachelor in informatics. Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Marks – average 5.78; Defence of diploma work – 6.00 Secondary School: SOU Dimitar Matevski – Plovdiv. Mathematics and English Language class. Marks – average 5.97(English (6), 1260 study hours; German (6), 274 study hours (1 study hour = 40min))

TOPIC OF THE PhD THESIS: Dependency Parsing and the Human Sentence Parsing Mechanism Expected date of graduation – the 12th of December, 2007

BACHELOR’S THESIS: Defence: 06.07.2004 Topic: Automatic Syntactic Analysis of Texts in Bulgarian. Tutor: associate professor Hristo Krushkov, University of Plovdiv

LINGUISTIC PROJECTS: 01.03.2007 – 30.04.2006: BIS-21++ project at the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 02.01.2006 – 02.02.2006: BIS-21++ project at the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 27.01.2004 – 27.04.2004: Erasmus student at University of Wolverhampton, England, UK. Practice at the Research Group in Computational Linguistics. Two exams taken distantly: Language and the computer (Mark: A14), Morphology (Mark: A15) 2003: Participation in BalkaNet project, University of Plovdiv 2003: Participation in the improvement of an on-line dictionary, University of Plovdiv 01.10.2002-22.11.2002: CEEPUS student in University of Szeged, Hungary. Practice in a linguistic laboratory – NP Extraction.

RESEARCH PERIODS ABROAD: Visiting graduate student at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (01.02.2007 – 28.02.2007) Formally associated to New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria (01.11.2006 – 30.04.2007) Visiting graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (01.05.2006 – 31.10.2006) Short term visitor at Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden (11.02.2006 – 18.02.2006) Visiting graduate student at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria (01.11.2005 – 30.04.2006; 01.11.2006 – 31.01.2007; 01.03.2007 – 30.04.2007)

WORK EXPERIENCE: 01.2006 – 04.2006: Teaching assistant, Perl for linguists, FMI, University of Plovdiv 03.2006: Participant in the EU funded project BiS-21++ at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (total – 3 months – in 2006 and 2007) 12.04.2005 – 31.12.2005; 02.2006 – : Research student at ITC-irst, Trento (non-paid) 01.10.2004 – 15.11.2004: Teaching assistant in Information Technologies, FMI, University of Plovdiv 08.03.2004 – 19.03.2004: Project in the Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton (professor Ruslan Mitkov).

INTERESTS: Parsing, Dependency Grammars, Human sentence processing

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Mac OS, Linux, Windows

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Perl, Java, C/C++, Delphi, XML, SQL, Python(basic), Lisp, Prolog, Ada(basic), VBA(Visual Basic for Applications)

LANGUAGES: Bulgarian – native speaker English – Fluent, A3 grade (highest) on the Entry Test for international students (developed by Oxford University) – held in University of Wolverhampton, UK in 2004. Italian – Able to hold a conversation, middle level (A2A course in CIAL language centre, University of Trento, Italy), + 200 hours at Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Sofia. German – basic

PUBLICATIONS: Simov, K., Chanev, A., Osenova, P. and Marinov, S. (2007) The BulTreeBank: Parsing and Conversion. In press. (Proceedings of RANLP, Borovetz), 2007 Attardi, G., Dell'Orletta, F., Simi, M., Chanev, A. and Ciaramita, M. (2007) Multilingual Dependency Parsing and Domain Adaptation using DeSR. In Proceedings of EMNLP- CoNLL 2007, Prague, 2007 Nivre, J., Hall, J., Nillson, J., Chanev, A., Eryigit, G., Kübler, S., Marinov, S. and Marsi, E. (2007) MaltParser: A Language-Independent System for Data-Driven Dependency Parsing. Natural Language Engineering, June 2007, 13(2), pp. 95–135 Chanev, A. (2006) Statistical Dependency Parsing of Four Treebanks. Informatica, 2006, 30(4), pp. 461–465 Chanev, A. (2006) Studying the Learning Curves of a Statistical Dependency Parser for Four Languages. In Proceedings of the 5th Slovenian and 1st International Language Technologies Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2006 Chanev, A., Simov, K., Osenova, P., Marinov, S. (2006) Dependency Conversion and Parsing of the BulTreeBank. In Proceedings of the LREC workshop Merging and Layering Linguistic Information, Genoa, Italy, 2006 Chanev, A., Krushkov, H. (2006) A simple part-of-speech tagger for Bulgarian. In Proceedings of Mathematics, Informatics and Computer Sciences Conference, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, 2006 Chanev, A. (2005) Portability of Dependency Parsing Algorithms. An Application for Italian. In Proceedings of Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) 2005, Barcelona, Spain, 2005 Krushkov, H., Chanev, A. (2005) Automatic Parsing: A Probabilistic Approach for Bulgarian. Annual Spring Conference of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians (UBM), Botovetz, Bulgaria, 2005 Крушков, Х., Крушкова, М., Чанев, А. (2004) Статистически Методи за Автоматична Обработка на Български Език. (Statistical Methods for Automatic processing of Bulgarian) Юбилейна Конференция на Съюз на Учените в България, Пловдив, 2004 Крушков, Х., Чанев, А. (2004) Автоматичен Синтактичен Анализ на Текстове на Български Език. (Automatic Syntactic Analysis of Texts in Bulgarian) Юбилейна Конференция на Съюз на Учените в България, Пловдив, 2004