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SLAVOMÍR [email protected] | www.bulbul.sk ČÉPLÖ

2012-2018 Ph.D. – Mathematical Thesis:Charles “,Constituent order in Maltese: A quantitative analysis” (www.bulbul.sk/phd) ITIL v3 Foundation 2011 Certificate awarded , 1997-2002 M.A. – Modern Philology (Arabic, English, Finnish) Thesis: “Selected Issues in the Development of Judeo-Arabic”

WORK

SiemensEXPERIENCE Healthineers s r.o. 10/2019 - present Data analysis and simulation professional (AIPC) - Develop

ing NLP/ML solutions for the processing of unstructured medical data 11/2017-present ERC project “HunaynNet” -Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Abteilung für Byzanzforschung and authorshipResearch fellowanalysis responsible, for building data visualization, building parallel corpora (Greek, Syriac, Arabic), conducting lexicographic research Slovak Academy of Sciencesand developing NLP tools 11/2017-09/2020 APVV project “Historical causes and context of revolutionary events in the Middle East and their implications for the security of and the EU” - -time research fellow

Part 12/2016-10/2017 Listening Center Senior Analyst -Dell Technologies customer feedback data from web and social media - Prepared specifications for and performed- multilingual-based sentiment text mining analysis of - - Prepared specifications for machine learning Processed, cleaned and verified data and performed analysis in R and Python Prepared reports and visualizations in Tableau Hewlett- 05/2009-11/2016 Localization project manager - Packard Enterprise ABS EMEA ACG

- Managed complex localization projects in the following industries: IT services, -consumer marketing, automotive, legal, electrical engineering, manufacturing - Wrote and managed documentation of localization processes TraManaged server installations (Windows, Ubuntu and CentOS) Framework)Managed software installations of translation and localization tools (SDL - dos Studio, SDL World Server, iOmegaT, Alchemy Catalyst, Okapi Moses, Systran) - SupervisedDeveloped QAthe processes setup and for training machine of machine translation translation engines (SDL TMS, - s software applications

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MEMBERSHIPSociety of Biblical Literature -

NorthInternational American Association Society for of theMaltese Study Linguistics of Christian / GApocryphalħaqda Internazzjonali Literature tal Lingwistika Maltija The Association for Computational Linguistics LANGUAGES (member of the governing board)

Slovak – native – CEFR C2 Arabic (MSA), Dutch, Spanish, Maltese – CEFR C1 ArabicCzech, English,(North Africa), German French , Russian – CEFR B2 A number of , Polish– passive only

IT living and dead languages

/ scikit (advanced), R (advanced), XML / XSLT / / JQuery (advanced), SQL (intermediate), Java / C# (basic) ProgrammingDatabases: MySQL languages: / Perl (advanced), (advanced) Python / NumPy XPath (advanced), JavaScript PostgreSQL / spaCy / / Data storage / and search:SVMTool Hadoop, / Lucene, Elasticsearch / TensorFlow (intermediate) / Keras (intermediate) NLP tools: NoSketchEngine (administrator), Moses (administrator), NLTK Apache OpenNLP LingPipeOS and server:UDPipe Windows / / CentOSStanford / Ubuntu CoreNLP / Docker / Kubernetes (intermediate) CMS tools: Drupal / WordPress (intermediate) SLAVOMÍR ČÉPLÖ PAGE 3

TEACHING (UNIVERSITY-LEVEL COURSES)

Modern Standard Arabic II / Modern Standard Arabic III 2003-2004 of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava Mandatory course (seminar, 4 hours / week, winter / summer term)

Introduction to Arabic dialectology 2018-present Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava Elective course (seminar, 2 hours / week, summer term)

TEACHING (ONE-OFF SEMINARS/LECTURES)

Apocryphal literature in Slavonic: 2020 Terminology, language, preservation and transmission NASSCAL ‘First Friday’ online workshop, November 2020

Corpus Linguistics and Natural Language Processing for|in|with Syriac 2020 The Syriac Lab, The Buchmann Faculty of , Tel Aviv University, 17 June 2020

ARCIS NLP Summer School 2019

-3 July 2019 -Summer co-instructor school (with organized Kim Gerdes) by the Africa Regional Centre for Information of the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), 1 Introduction to Natural Language Processing for (Digital) Humanists 2019

IMAFO,Towards Österreichische a syntactically annotatedAkademie corpusder Wissenschaften, of Maltese: Theory 29 May and 2019 tools 2015

Linguistics Circle Seminar Series, , 5 May 2015 TEACHING (OTHER)

Beth Mardutho Summer Fellowship 2020 –

Supervised fellows working on a number of NLP/DH projects, June August 2020 OTHER

6th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics (Lingwistika Maltija) 2017 Bratislava, 8-9 June 2017

Conference organizer