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Dr. Mariana Damova is the CEO of Mozaika, a company providing research and solutions in the field of data science (analytics and intelligence), reasoning with natural language semantics (including interpretation of how human use language), and natural human computer interfaces, creativity enhancing applications, and research infrastructures for the humanities. Previously, she was a Business development Manager and a Knowledge Management Expert specializing in ontology engineering and linked data management at Ontotext. She was instrumental in the successful winning and knowledge modelling of large data integration and management projects such as the Semantic Knowledge Base for The National Archive of the United Kingdom and Research Space for the British Museum, as well as European FP7 projects such as Europeana Creative and Multisensor. Her work focuses on the design and development of data integration infrastructures which allow efficient querying, access and navigation over linked data. She has modeled industrial and enterprise data in a pilot project introducing semantic technologies to US industrial settings, and managed the building of teh official experimental Europeana SPARQL endpoint holding Europeana semantic data. Mariana holds a PhD from the University of Stuttgart and teaches semantic technologies and multimedia at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. She regularly reviews books and articles for ACM ComputingReviews.com and has authored books and scientific articles in linguistics and semantic technologies. She has successfully lead international interdisciplinary teams and projects carrying technological risks, driven and managed change in engineering and operational contexts in North America and in Europe, and acquired the ability to leverage marketing requirements with engineering solutions identifying added value to new knowledge intense technological solutions.

Публикации:

Building an Owl-Ontology for Representing, Linking and Querying SemAF Discourse Annotations (with Christian Chiarcos, Purificação Silvano, Mariana Damova, Giedre Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska) In: Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Vol. 49 No. 1, 2023.

TELEMAC Hydrodynamic Models over Time: A Case Study with the Danube. (with Stanko Stankov, W. Alexander Breugem, Mariana Damova, Theofano Koutrouveli, Boudewijn Decrop). In: Proceedings of TUC2023, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2023, pp.174-182.

Validation of Language Agnostic Models for Discourse Marker Detection (with Kostadin Mishev Giedre Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Purificação Silvano, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Christian Chiarcos, Anna Baczkowska). In Proceedings of LDK2023, Vienna, Austria, September 2023.

Water Resources Management of the Danube with ISME-HYDRO (Poster) (with Emil Stoyanov, Stanko Stankov, Hermand Pesssek) 2023 Danube Water Conference. Vienna, Austria, June 2023.

Intelligent e-Infrastructure for Sustainable Management and Exploitation of Rivers and Dams based on Earth Observation and AI. (with Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov) New Capabilities and Countries in European Space Conference, ESTEC-ESA, Nordwijk, The Netherlands, May 2023.

Early Warning Embedded in Intelligent Web-based Workflow for River Monitoring through Earth Observation and AI. (with Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov) EGU General Assembly Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2023.

Forecasting Discharge and Water Levels of Rivers and Dams using Earth Observation and AI (with Stanko Stankov) EGU General Assembly Conference, Vienna, Austria, April 2023.

Intelligent Information Infrastructure for monitoring and exploitation of water resources (with Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov) 4th Cope4BG Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 2022.

Intelligent Web-based Workflow for River Monitoring through Earth Observation and AI for Sustainable Development. (with Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pesssek, Stanko Stankov. ). 25th International River Symposium 2022 (IRS 2022), Vienna, Austria, November 2022, video presentation.

Information Systems for Water Resource Management. 1St UN Space for Water Stakeholder Meeting, Vienna, Austria, October 2022.

River Dynamics Forecasting using Telemac, Earth Observation and AI. (with Stanko Stankov) In Proceedings of Telemac User Conference 2022 (TUC 2022), Paris-Saclay, France, October 2022, pp. 281-289.

Machine Learning Methods for Discourse Marker Detection in Italian. (with Emma Angela Montechiari, Kostadin Mishev, Stanko Stankov and Mariana Damova) In: Proceedings of Workshop on Deep Learning and Neural Approaches for Linguistic Linked Data 2 (DL4LD), A NexusLinguarum Workshop. Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2022.

An OWL Ontology for ISO-based Discourse Marker Annotation. (with Christian Chiarcos, Purificação Silvano, Giedre Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Ciprian-Octavian Truica§, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska) In: Proceeding of “LLOD approaches for language data research and management” (LLODREAM2022), A NexusLinguarum Conference. Vilinius, Lithuania, September 2022.

(Common) ground and Discourse Development Prediction Associated with the Role of Intonation in the Interpretation of Communicative Connectives. (with Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk). SLE 2022, Bucharest, Romania, August 2022.

ISO-based Annotated Multilingual Parallel Corpus for Discourse Markers. (with Purificação Silvano, Giedre Valunaite Oleškevicien, Chaya Liebeskind, Chaya Liebeskind, Christian Chiargos, Dimitar Trajanov,  Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Anna Baczkowska) Poster. LREC 2022, Marseille, France, June 2022.

ISME-HYDRO – an e-Infrastructure for Monitoring Groundwater Resources Based on Earth Observation and AI. Lightning Talk. 5th Invernational Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water Resources Management, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Accra, Ghana, May 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQvLUT8jRrg

Forecasting of River Runoff and Sediment Deposition with Methods of EO4AI for Fairway Modification Prediction. (with Stanko Stankov) Poster. Living Planet Symposium 2022 (LPS’2022), Bonn, Germany, May 2022.

ISO-DR-core plugs into ISO-dialogue acts for a crosslinguistic taxonomy of discourse markers. (with Purificação Silvano) DiSLiDaS 2022 workshop, NexusLinguarum, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2022.

Evaluation of Cross-Lingual Methods for Discourse Markers Detection.

(with Kostadin Mishev, Giedre Valunaite Oleškevicien, Chaya Liebeskind, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Purificação Silvano, Ciprian-Octavian Truica, Elena-Simona Apostol, Christian Chiargos). DiSLiDaS 2022 workshop, NexusLinguarum, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2022.

ISME-HYDRO – an Integrated System for Monitoring of Water Resources for Sustainable Exploitation of Dams and Rivers. (with Emil Stoyanov, Hermand Pessek, Stanko Stankov, Mihail Kopchev) In: Proceedings of International Conference on Water Resources Management and Sustainability: Solutions for Arid Regions, EXPO2020, Dubai, March 2022, pp.98-102.

Speaker Attitudes Detection through Discourse Markers Analysis. (with Giedre Valunaite Oleskevicienė, Chaya Liebeskind, Dimitar Trajanov, Purificação Silvano, Christian Chiarcos), In: Proceedings of Workshop "Deep learning and Neural Approaches for Lingusitic Data", NexusLinguarum, Skopje, October 2021.

Fairway Modification Mapping based on AI Models for Sediment Deposition and River Runoff Forecast. (with Stanko Stankov), In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week The New Space Economy, Virtual event, October 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6c23jzOWXw

Linked Data Meet Deep Learning to Empower Water Resources Monitoring of Dams. (with Emil Stoyanov, Mihail Kopchev, Hermand Pessek, Martin Petrov, Stefano Natali), In: Proceedings of Big Data From Space 2021 (BiDS’2021), Virtual Event, Originally planned to be hosted by University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (UPB), May 2021.

GIS-based Representation of Lexical Geolinguistic Elements of the Bulgarian Language Territory - an Interactive Map of Bulgarian Dialects (with Svilena Gospodinova), In: Bulgarian Language – Historical and Contemporary Aspects. Edition in Hounor of 140 Anniversary of Acad. Stefan Mladenov. Institute for Bulgarian Language. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2020, ISBN 978-619-90884-1-8 http://lexicalgeolinguistic.org/dialects

Forecasting Water Volumes in Dams Based on Deep Learning Over Satellite Data. (with Martin Petrov, Emil Stoyanov), In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week Digital Twin Earth, Virtual event, September 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TngfMuLAEMs

Linked Open Data Prototype of the Historical Archive of the European Commission In: Proceedings of IS&T Archiving Conference, Washington, DC, USA, 2020. https://archiving2020.connectedcommunity.org/tracks/community-home/librarydocuments/viewsessionentry?DocumentKey=8b8293b0-d659-490a-aa35-057a39be68fa

2017.01 ISA² Action: Standard-based archival data management, exchange and publication Phase 2: Work Package 4, Link Open Data (with Bernhard Kerpen) European Commission which ran within EPRS/ARCH/SER/16/013, Lot 1 ‘Analysis and Studies’: ISA² Programme: Interoperability Solutions for Public Administrations. Brussels, Belgium, 2020. https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/sites/isa/files/docs/publications/the_link_open_data_process_description.pdf

Ontology-Based Semantic Search Over Linked Satellite, Geospatial, Numeric and Symbolic Data in the Water Management Domain (with Emil Stoyanov, Mihail Kopchev, Hermand Pessek), In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week EO Open Science and FutureEO, Frascati, Italy, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWi7mAz2iZg

Linked Data Approach to Water Resources Management of Hydropower Reservoirs (with Emil Stoyanov, Mihail Kopchev, Stefano Natali, Katerina Kuzmanova), In: Proccesings of ISDE’2019 (11th International Symposium of Digital Earth), Florence, Italy, 2019. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/509/1/012011

An Information System for Monitoring of Hydropower Reservoirs in Bulgaria (with Emil Stoyanov, Martin Petrov) In: Proceedings of Cope4BG, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxRcdpNzZ1s

An Information System for Monitoring of Hydropower Reservoirs in Bulgaria. (with Emil Stoyanov, Martin Petrov). In: Proceedings of Cope4BG, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018.

Linked Data Infrastructure for Monitoring Large Hydropower Reservoirs. (with Emil Stoyanov, Martin Petrov). In: Proceedings of The ESA Earth Observation Φ-week EO Open Science and FutureEO, Frascati, Italy, 2018.

Mapping the Routes of Paisij Hilendarski’s Istorija slavjanobolgarskaja: The Start of the Site “Geography of Letters”. (with Margaret Dimitrova). In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Society for the Study of the 18th Century, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018.

Multilingual Retrieval Interface for Structured Data on the Web (with Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache). In: Proceedings of NLIWod 2014, ISWC'2014, Trento, Italy, 2014.

A Multilingual SPARQL-Based Retrieval Interface for Cultural Heritage Objects (with Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache). In: Poster at ISWC'2014 P&D, Trento, Italy, 2014.

Natural Language Interaction with Semantic Web Knowledge Bases and LOD. (with Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache, Maria Mateva, Aarne Ranta). In: Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web, Paul Buitelaar and Philip Cimiano, eds., Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2014.

Bulgariana, the Bulgarian Version of Europeana. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium St.St. Cyril and Methodius and the Golden Age, Preslav, November 2013.

D 5.2.3 Refined Diversified News Service (with Enrique Alfonseca - Google, Daniele Figin - Google). Render FP7-ICT-2009-5, Contract no.: 257790, March 2013.

D 1.2.2 Final Data Integration (with Delia Rusu). Render FP7-ICT-2009-5, Contract no.: 257790, March 2013.

Multilingual Access to Cultural Heritage Content of the Semantic Web. (with Dana Dannells, Aarne Ranta, Ramona Enache, Maria Mateva). In Proceedings of LaTeCH (Language Technologies for Cultural Heritage) Workshop at ACL'2013. Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.

Bulgariana: A Bulgarian Aggregator to Europeana. In: Proceedings of "Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage" (DiPP2012), Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, September 2012

Alignment-based Querying of Linked Open Data (with Amit Krishna Joshi, Prateek Jain, Pascal Hitzler, Pete Z. Yeh, Kunal Verna, Amit P. Sheth) In: Proceedings of Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) 2012, Rome, Italy, September 2012.

FactForge: Data Service or Diversity through Inferred Knowledge over LOD (with Kiril Simov, Zdravko Tashev, Atanas Kiryakov) In Proceedings of AIMSA’2012 Varna, Bulgaria, September 2012.

FactForge Data Service and the Value of Inference over LOD, In: Proceedings of European Data Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2012.

OWLIM Reasoning over FactForge (with Barry Bishop, Atanas Kiryakov, Zdravko Tashev, Kiril Simov) In:Proceedings of OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE'2012), collocated with IJCAR 2012, Manchester, UK, July 2012.

Semi-Automatic Generation of Quizzes and Learning Artifacts from Linked Data (with Guillermo Álvaro Rey, Irene Celino, Panos Alexopoulos, Danica Damljanovic, Ning Li, Vladan Devedzic) In: Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Learning and Education with the Web of Data (Linked Learning 2012), WWW'2012, Lyon, France, April 2012.

Multilingual Online Generaton from Semantic Web Ontologies (with Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache, Milen Chechev)In: Proceedings of WWW'2012, Lyon, France, April 2012.

Creation and Integration of Reference Ontologies for Efficient LOD Management (with Atanas Kiryakov, Maurice Grinberg, Michael K. Bergman, Frederik Giasson, Kiril Simov) In: Semi-Automatic Ontology Development: Processes and Resources, IGI Global, Hershey PA, USA, 2012.

D 1.1.3 Final Collection of Data (with Delia Rusu). Render FP7-ICT-2009-5, Contract no.: 257790, December 2012.

An Infrastructure for Integrating and Accessing Museum Linked Data (with Dana Dannells, Ramona Enache, Milen Chechev) In: Proceedings of Workshop Language Technologies for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, RANLP'2011, Hissar, Bulgaria, September 2011.

Reason-able View of Linked Data for Cultural Heritage (with Dana Dannells) In: Proceedings of S3T'2011, Burgas, Bulgaria, September 2011, pp. , Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, ISSN: 1867-5662, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.

D 4.2 Data Modela and Alignment. MOLTO FP7-ICT-247914, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2011.

Contextual Ontology Alignment of LOD with an Upper Ontology: A Case Study with Proton (with Prateek Jain, Peter Z. Yeh, Kunal Verma, Reymonrod G., Vasquez Pascal Hitzler and Amit P. Sheth) In: Proceedings of 8th ESWC, Extended Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece, May 2011.

Ontological Support for Creative Writing (with Darina Dicheva, Christo Dichev) In: Proceedings of 24th FLAIRS Conference, Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, Palm Beach, Florida, May 2011

Storing The Semantic Web : Repositories (with Atanas Kiryakov). In: Semantic Web Handbook, pp. , Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.

D1.2.1 Initial Data Integration. (with Maurice Grinberg and Atanas Kiryakov). RENDER FP7-ICT-2009-5, Contract no.: 257790, Sofia, Bulgaria, January 2011(www.render-project.eu).

Mapping the Central LOD Ontologies to PROTON Upper-Level Ontology (with Atanas Kiryakov, Kiril Simov and Svetoslav Petrov) In Proceedings of Ontology Matching workshop, International Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China, November 2010.

Query-Based Summarization: a Survey (with Ivan Koychev) In Proceedings of S3T'2010, Varna, Bulgaria, September, 2010, pp. 142-147, Demetra, Sofia, 2010.

Mapping Data Driven Ontology and Upper Ontology (with Kiril Simov, Svetoslav Petrov) In Proceedings of AIMSA'2010, Varna, Bulgaria, September, 2010, pp. , LNAI Series, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2010.

D.4.1 Requirement Analysis for Semantic Annotation of TV Content. (with Marie-Lore Mevel, Luca Vignaroli, Fulvio Negro, Martin Riethmayer, Rico Zimmermann, Guus Schreiber, Ronald Siebes, Roberto Del Pero, Roberto Borgotallo), NoTube FP7 - 231761, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 2009.

D.4.1 Requirement Analysis for Semantic Annotation of TV Content. (with Marie-Lore Mevel), NoTube FP7 - 231761, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 2009.

The Aspectual Type BEGIN . (with Sabine Bergler) In: Proceedings of TALN'2000, Lauzanne, Suisse, October 2000.

Semantic Representation and Construction of the Cross-categorial Language Phenomenon Aspect. Accepted as alternate paper at CNLS'2000, Paris, France, May 2000.

The Notion of Aspect and the Bulgarian Wid Within Discourse Representation Theory. In: Papers from Third Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages. Plovdiv, September 1999. Working Papers in Linguistics No 34, University of Trondheim, Mila Dimitrova-Vylchanova, Iliyana Krapova, Lars Hellan eds., pp.262-275, Dragvoll, Norway, 2000.

BOOK:

Tense and Aspect in Discourse

A Study of the Interraction between aspect, discourse relations and temporal reference within Discourse Representation Theory with special attention to Bulgarian. ISBN 954 9908 011. FDC Publishing Agency, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1999.

Performance Support System for Child Protective Services. Part Assessment. InfoReport, Youth-Protection Centers and Sogique, Quebec, Canada, March 1999.

Inference between Aspectual Verbs and Events. (with Sabine Bergler) In Proceeedings of ESSLLI'98 Workshop: Lexical Semantics in Context. Saarbruecken, Germany, August 1998.

Tense and Aspect in Discourse.

(A Study of the Interraction between aspect, discourse relations and temporal reference within Discourse Representation Theory with special attention to Bulgarian.) PhD Dissertation. Institute for Computational Linguistics. University of Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany. July, 1998.

Nancy TEI Workshop Report on an Interractive Query System of the TELRI Resources. In TELRI Newsletter No.4. Manheim, Germany, October 1996. TELRI Event - Nancy TEI Workshop

Adverbs in the Transfer Module of MDS. Report 100, BMBF, December, 1995.

The Transfer of Adverbs and Adjectives. In: The MDS-Handbook in the Verbmobil Demonstrator, (Chapter 2), Report 147, BMBF, August, 1995.

Statistically Based Automatic Part of Speech Tagging of French Texts. (with Achim Stein) In: Techn.Rep. of "Tools for Text-Corpora",IMS, UNI-Stuttgart, 1994.

Aspect and Discourse Relations. In: Proceedings of CONSOLE II, Tuebingen, December, 1993.

The Long Journey from the Real Core to the Real Size of Large LDBs. (with Elena Paskaleva, Kiril Simov, Milena Slavcheva) In: Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from Text. Proceedings of a Workshop, Sponsored by the SIGLEX of the ACL, 31 ACL, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June, 1993.

Morpho-Assistant - a Knowledge Based System for Bulgarian Morphology, (with K.Simov, E.Paskaleva, M. Slavcheva) In: DEMO Proceedings of ANLP Conference,Trento, 1992.

Creation de bases de donnees lexicales et textuelles du domaine de la bourse, in Systemes boursiers et marches financiers : 7 projets d'etude, INaLCO, CRIM, Paris, 1991.