PERSONAL INFORMATION
Nikola Ljubešić
Scientist’s Identification Number: 272820
Personal Web-site: Nikola Ljubešić (FFZG)
Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI) profile: Nikola Ljubešić (CROSBI)
EDUCATION
2009 PhD Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
2003 MA, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
CURRENT POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Postdoctoral researcher, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2009-2011 Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
2004-2009 Research assistant, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2015 Visiting scholar at University of Zürich
2014 Visiting researcher at Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Department of Knowledge Technologies
2007 Visiting scholar at University of Pennsylvania, USA, Department of linguistics and Department of computer science
2003 Visiting student at City University, London, Department of information science
PhD AND POST-DOCTORAL STUDENT SUPERVISION
Supervisor of one and co-supervisor of two PhD theses at the University of Zagreb
Currently co-supervising one PhD thesis at the University of Ljubljana
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Since 2005 teaching courses in natural language processing at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences, University of Zagreb.
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (if applicable)
2016 LT4VarDial – Second Joint Workshop on Language Technology for Closely Related Languages, Varieties and Dialects, COLING 2016, Osaka
2016-2017 Series of linguistic seminars organised as part of the Regional Linguistic Data Initiative (ReLDI)
2015 LT4VarDial – Joint Workshop on Language Technology for Closely Related Languages, Varieties and Dialects, RANLP 2015, Hissar
2014 VarDial – Workshop in Applying NLP Tools to Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, COLING 2014, Dublin
MEMBERSHIPS
2011- member of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2011- member of the Slovene Association for Language Technologies
2005- member of the Croatian Association for Language Technologies
NOTABLE SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS
2015-2017 Swiss National Science Foundation project ReLDI (Regional Linguistic Data Initiative), principal investigator
2014-2017 Slovene National Science Foundation project JANES (Resources, Tools and Methods for the Research of Nonstandard Internet Slovene)
2013-2016 FP7 IAPP project Abu-MaTran (Automatic Building of Machine Translation), principal investigator
2014-2016 European Regional Development Fund project RAPUT (Computer assistant for facilitating text entry of people with language disabilities), work package leader
2011-2013 FP7 project CESAR (Central and South-East European Resources)
2010-2012 FP7 project LetsMT! (Platform for Online Sharing of Training Data and Building User Tailored Machine Translation)
2010-2012 FP7 project ACCURAT (Analysis and evaluation of Comparable Corpora for UnderResourced Areas of machine Translation)
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