My Research


Research Topics

The main focus of my research is semantic role labelling and its application in different areas of NLP, such as Question Answering, Summarization or Textual Entailment.

Thus, in order to get an insight on the challenges these NLP areas suppose, I have worked as a member in the Romanian team for the QA@CLEF competition since 2006, helped creating an evaluation gold for the internal evaluation of the Romanian system participating in the RTE4 competition.

Within the Institute for Computer Science, I have worked on analysing the structure of the Verbal Group for Romanian. In parallel, I worked on developing the web page and the sound archive for the Archive for the Romanian Sounds.

At the Institute, I now work on the Nominal Group and on the structure of the JRC-ACQUIS documents.

However, the domain that always attracted me, and that I would most probably get to finally work on, is ambient intelligence (see the Wikipedia definition). For me, this means building challenging devices that try to understand, predict and interact with humans as least as better as humans understand, predict or interact themselves. Or, in fewer words, doing practical stuff, that people can "play" with :)

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Ongoing Projects

I currently work on the following projects:

Name Description Role Since
METANET4U Enhancing the European Linguistic Infrastructure Researcher for UAIC February 2011
SEM-NLP Natural language processing applications using semantic roles Coordinator for IIT November 2011

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Past Projects

During my PhD, I have been part of the team of several projects:

Name Description Role From.. To..
eDTLR (webpage in Romanian) Transforming the Romanian Language Thesaurus Dictionary in electronic format Researcher for IIT September 2007
INTELCHIM Modelling and automatic control using artificial intelligence tools for applications in chemistry and process engineering Researcher for IIT September 2007
Research grant for PhD Students Natural Language Processing using Semantic Roles Project Coordinator for UAIC 2007 - 2008
e-Manage Developing Romania's ability to integrate in programs, platforms and European networks in the domain of virtual and distributed systems of design and management of the research Financial Responsible and Researcher for UAIC 2006 - 2008
LT4eL Language Technology for eLearning Researcher for UAIC 2006 - 2008
SIR-RESDEC Open Domain Question Answering System for Romanian and English Researcher for UAIC September 2007
ROTEL Intelligent systems for the Semantic Web, based on ontologies logic and language technologies. Applications for the Romanian Language Researcher for UAIC 2006 - 2008

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Several papers written for different projects are on my Publication page!