Preslav I. Nakov
Scientist
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of California at Berkeley (2007)
Diploma (B.Sc.+M.Sc.) in Informatics
Sofia University (2001)
Biography
Dr. Preslav I. Nakov (pnakov AT qf DOT org DOT qa) is a Scientist in the Arabic Language Technologies group at QCRI, Qatar Foundation. His research interests include computational linguistics, machine translation, lexical semantics, Web as a corpus, and biomedical text processing. Before joining QCRI, he was a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore for three years, where he worked on text and spoken language machine translation for Asian languages, including Chinese, Malay and Indonesian. Prior to that, he spent nine months at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Sofia University, where he was a honorary lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2007 (supported by a Fulbright grant and a UC Berkeley fellowship).
Dr. Nakov authored two books, one book chapter, and several full-length refereed conference publications at conferences like ACL, HLT-NAACL, EMNLP, CoNLL, EACL, ECAI, and RANLP. He received the Young Researcher Award at RANLP’2011. He was also the first to receive the Bulgarian President’s John Atanasoff annual award for achievements in the development of the information society (December 2003); the award is named after John Atanasoff, an American of Bulgarian ancestry who invented the first automatic electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff-Berry computer.
Current program committees: ACL’2012, NAACL-HLT’2012, EMNLP’2012, EACL’2012, AAAI’2012, SIGIR’2012, LREC’2012, *SEM’2012, WMT’2012, MALINDO’2012, SP-Sem-MRL’2012, CLW/AL’2012, ROBUS-UNSUP’2012, ICEHST’2012, BMSD’2012 .
Recent program committees: ACL-HLT’2011, EMNLP’2011, SIGIR’2011, AAAI’2011, IJCAI’2011, IJCNLP’2011, RANLP’2011, AIRS’2011, AISB’2011, S3T’2011, ICEHST’2011, LLMMC’2011, RELMS’2011, MWE’2011, IEKA’2011, MALINDO’2011, ULNLP’2011, AEPC’2011, WIMS’2011, BMSD’2011, RANLP’2011-student.
Recent keynote talks: ICEKMT’2011 (The Web as a Corpus: Going Beyond Page Hit Frequencies), AEPC’2011 (Reusing Parallel Corpora between Related Languages), NLPMCTLLL’09 (Using the Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compound Syntax and Semantics).
Recent panel participations: ROBUS-UNSUP’2012 (Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning in NLP), MWE’2011 (From Parsing and Generation to the Real World).
Recent tutorials: RANLP’2011 (Web Knowledge Extraction and Applications).
Recent talks at research institutions:
- 2010: XRCE (France), NICTA (Australia), The University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Cambridge (UK), University of Karlsruhe (Germany), University of Stuttgart (Germany), University of Basel (Switzerland), University of Darmstadt (Germany), University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy), University of Wolverhampton (UK).
- 2009: NICT (Japan).
