Ruslan Mitkov is a professor at Lancaster University, and a researcher in

Natural Language Processing Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to proc ...

and

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

. He completed his PhD at

Technical University of Dresden TU Dresden (for german: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often wrongly translated as "Dresden University of Technology") is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, th ...

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 or postcedent). In a narrower sense, anaphora is the use of an expression that depends specifically upon an a ...

, 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 ''

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'' 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 proces ...

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

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (german: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) is a foundation established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Rese ...

* 2002. Keynote speaker at

CICLing CICLing (International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing; before 2017 known under the name International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics) is an annual conference on com ...

conference * 2011. Doctor Honoris Causa from

Plovdiv University Plovdiv ( bg, Пловдив, ), is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace. It has a population of 346,893 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is th ...

* 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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