Ruslan Mitkov is a professor at

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, and a researcher in

Natural Language Processing Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science and especially artificial intelligence. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with the ability to process data encoded in natural language and is thus closely related ...

and

Computational Linguistics Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, computational linguistics ...

. He completed his PhD at

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under the supervision of Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann. He has published more than 240 refereed papers and is best known for his contributions to

Anaphora Resolution In linguistics, anaphora () is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent). In a narrower sense, anaphora is the use of an expression that depends specifically upon an antecedent expr ...

, and his seminal work in computer-aided generation of multiple-choice tests among others. Mitkov is the sole editor of the ''Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics'' (

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) and the author of the book ''Anaphora Resolution'' (published by

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), which have become standard textbooks in their fields. He is also the co-founder and

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of the

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journal '' Natural Language Engineering'' and the editor-in-chief of

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’ book series in

Selected works

* 1998. ''Robust pronoun resolution with limited knowledge'', Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the

Association for Computational Linguistics The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a scientific and professional organization for people working on natural language processing. Its namesake conference is one of the primary high impact conferences for natural language proce ...

and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics-Volume 2 * 2001. ''Introduction to the special issue on computational anaphora resolution.'' Mitkov, Ruslan, Branimir Boguraev, and Shalom Lappin. Computational Linguistics 27.4 (2001): 473-477. * 2003 ''Computer-aided generation of multiple-choice tests'', Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 03 workshop on Building educational applications using natural language processing-Volume 2

Honors and awards

* 1993, 1994. Fellow of the

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* 2002. Keynote speaker at CICLing conference * 2011. Doctor Honoris Causa from

Plovdiv University Plovdiv (, ) is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, 144 km (93 miles) southeast of the capital Sofia. It had a population of 490,983 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is a cultural hub in Bulgaria and was the European Capi ...

* 2012. Keynote speaker at TSD conference * 2014. Professor Honoris Causa from

Veliko Tarnovo University The St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo ( Bulgarian ''Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“'') is a Bulgarian university based in Veliko Tarnovo. History ...

References

External links

Ruslan Mitkov's Home Page

Google Scholar page

Bio at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences website
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