4 June 1977 -  Sofia, Bulgaria

Education

1995 - graduates from High school for foreign languages, profile in English and German language

Since 1995 - student in Bulgarian philology at the University of Sofia

1997 - starts English language and literature as minor

July 2000 - graduates; defends Masters thesis in syntax: “The access to topic position in Bulgarian sentence - elements and their hierarchy

January 2001 – enrolled a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Bulgarian language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
 

Grants and Summerchools

1998 - awarded a Prize for "Student's high  scientific results" by the German Stiffing fur Bulgarische Hochschulfoerderung

August 1999 -  granted a scholarship from Sofia University for a one-month language course in German at the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken, Germany

August 2000 - participates in the 7th Eastern Generative Grammar School, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

January 2001 – enrolled a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Bulgarian language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

July 2001 - participates in the 8th Eastern Generative Grammar School, Nis, Surbia

October 2001 - a grant from the EU Commission for the Course "How to use corpora in language teaching" held at the Tuscan Word Centre, Italy
 

Projects

Since March 2001 - working on a Ph.D. position in the BulTreeBank Project
In the project I work on the discontinuous constituents in Bulgaria - their classification, linguistic motivation and formal modeling in HPSG. Together with Krassimira Ivanova (colleague of mine) we created the electronic version of the Valence dictionary of Bulgarian verbs. For the improvement of the BulTreeBank resources I 'm doing some manual disambiguation of texts.
 

Scientific interests

Formal and computational linguistics, especially syntax; ethnology and folklore. From the first year at the University - a member of a Student’s Seminar for Ethnology and Folklore. A regular participant in the Seminar’s yearly folklore expeditions. Author of three publications in ethnology.
 

Languages

English - fluent
German - good
Russian - good