Dr. Elena IRIMIA

General info

Scientific titles

PhD in Computer Science, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy

Education

• 2009: PhD in Computer Science, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania with the thesis: Methods for Machine Translation based on Analogy. Applications for English and Romanian, Coordinator: Prof.Dr. C.M. of Romanian Academy Dan Tufiş
• 2002-2003, Faculty of Letters, Bucharest University, Romania, M.Sc. in Theoretic Linguistics, dissertation: Marcus Contextual Grammars  Application in Linguistics.
• 1997-2001, Faculty of Mathematics, Department of Informatics, Bucharest University, Romania  B.Sc. thesis: Sorting Algorithms

Work experience

• October 2003 – now, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania – Research Assistant, Researcher, Senior Researcher (successively), member of the Natural Language Processing Group.
• December 2000 – April 2002, The Financial Office of the University of Bucharest, informatician (creating/maintaining an Acces database for financial record)

Languages

• English (W, R, S – fluent)
• French (W, R, S – medium)
• Spanish (W, R, S – medium)

Research

Research interests | International & National Research Projects

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Translation
• Language Technologies
• Machine Learning
• Knowledge Representation

International research projects

Past projects

• META-NET – Multilingual Europe: a Technology Alliance (FP7, 249119 – Network of Excellence)
  • coordinator: DFKI, Germany
  • duration: Feb. 2010 – Jan. 2013
• METANET4U – Enhancing the European Linguistic Infrastructure (CIP-ICT-PSP.2010.6.1, 270893)
  • coordinator: University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • duration: Feb. 2011 – Jan. 2013
• Multilingual Web – Advancing the Multilingual Web (ICT PSP No. 250500)
  • coordinator: ERCIM/W3C, France
  • duration: April 2010 – March 2012
• ACCURAT – Analysis and evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation (FP7, 248347)
  • coordinator: Tilde SIA, Riga, Latvia
  • duration: 2010 – 2012

• CLARIN – Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, 2008 – 2011

National research projects

Past projects

• ACCURAT-RO – Analiza şi evaluarea corpusurilor comparabile pentru domenii ale Traducerii Automate cu mai puţine resurse (PN2, Capacităţi), coordinator: Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 2010 – 2012
• STAR – A System for Machine Translation for Romanian (PN2, Idei) 2009 – 2011
• CLARIN-RO – Infrastructură pentru resurse lingvistice interoperabile pentru limba română (PN2, Capacităţi) 2009 – 2011
• eDTLR – The Romanian Thesaurus Dictionary in electronic form (PN2, D91013/18.09.2007) 2007 – 2010
• SIR-RESDEC – Open Domain Question Answering System for Romanian and English (PN2, D11007/18.09.2007) 2007 – 2010
• ROTEL – Intelligent systems for the Semantic Web, based on logics, ontologies and language technologies (CEEX 29) 2005 – 2008

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