Research Topics

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

Another topic I am currently working on is Semantic Media Analysis and Sentiment Identification, in the context of Linked Open Data.

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 and Nominal Group and on automatically identifying the structure of JRC-ACQUIS documents. In parallel, I worked on developing the web page and the sound archive for the Archive for the Romanian Sounds.

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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Awards

• Women's Annual Science and Technology Distinction for Young Researchers 2015, awarded for outstanding achievements in scientific research by STAGES, the Center for Gender Equality in Science.
• The "Investor Award for the project with the highest economic potential" at BringITon! 2010 "Workshop on assessing the connections between the computer science research and the industry" for the project "Question Answering System"
• Diploma and Golden Medal at the 13th International Salon of Research, Innovation and Technological Transfer INVENTICA 2009, for "Sounds Database Archive - Annotation and Documentated Recordings for Romanian Spoken Language"

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