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Basics
| Name | Iana Atanassova |
| Title | Full Professor in Natural Language Processing |
| iana.atanassova@univ-fcomte.fr | |
| Url | https://iana-atanassova.github.io/ |
| Summary | Director of the CRIT laboratory at the Universit Marie et Louis Pasteur, France. Member of Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). |
Work
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2025.09 - Present Full Professor in Natural Language Processing
Université Marie et Louis Pasteur (formerly Université de Franche-Comté), France
Full Professor and Director of Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Transculturelles (CRIT) in Besançon, France. Research in NLP specializing in scientific discourse analysis, uncertainty modeling, information extraction.
- Head of CRIT laboratory
- Research on scientific text processing
- Supervision of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers
- Course manager of the MSc degree in NLP
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2021.09 - Present Junior Member
Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
Junior member involved in interdisciplinary research funded by IUF, with emphasis on Natural Language Processing and scientific knowledge modeling.
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2014.09 - 2015.08 Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing
Université de Franche-Comté, France
Teaching and research in NLP, including computational linguistics courses.
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2014.01 - 2014.08 Post-doctoral fellow
Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Semantic processing of corpora in humanities and social sciences.
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2012.03 - 2013.06 Research and Development Manager
MyScienceWork
Implemented search engine for scientific papers for a social network specializing in scholarly communication.
Awards
- 2021.09
IUF (Institut Universitaire de France) Research Grant, Junior Member
Institut Universitaire de France
Support for interdisciplinary research in Natural Language Processing.
- 2017.01
First Prize of the InovHackTion Hackathon
French Air Force
Award for intelligent analysis of documents.
Projects
- 2021.01 - 2025.12
InSciM - Modelling Uncertainty in Science
ANR JCJC funded research project addressing linguistic modeling of scientific uncertainty. French ANR grant number ANR-21-CE38-0003-01.
- 2021.01 - 2023.06
Automatic correction of text responses to exams
Collaboration and technology transfer to the start-up e-Cole, funded by Technopole de la Réunion.
- 2020.10 - 2024.09
EMONTAL - Extraction and Ontology Modeling of Subjects and Places for the Exploitation of the Documentary Funds of Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Project for documentary fund exploitation, funded by Région Bourgogne Franche-Comté.
- 2020.01 - 2022.06
DecRIPT - Detection of the Representations of Personal Data in Texts
Project funded by Interreg France-Switzerland 2014-2020 and Communauté du Savoir, Switzerland.
- Developing tools for GDPR compliance via text processing
- Academic partners : HEG (Switzerland), HEG Arc (Switzerland)
- Private partners : ERDIL (France), Global Data Excellence (Switzerland)
Education
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2015.12 - 2014.12 Besançon, France
Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR) in Natural Language Processing
Université de Franche-Comté (now Université Marie et Louis Pasteur)
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of scientific discourse. Applications to Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and the Semantic Web
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2012.01 - 2007.10 Paris, France
PhD in Mathematics, Informatics and Applications to Human Sciences
Université Paris-Sorbonne
Exploiting semantic annotations for information retrieval and text navigation
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2005.09 - 2007.06 Paris, France
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2004.09 - 2005.06 Sofia, Bulgaria
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2000.09 - 2004.06 Sofia, Bulgaria
Languages
| French | |
| Fluent |
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Bulgarian | |
| Native |
Interests
| Natural Language Processing | |
| Scientific Text Analysis | |
| Uncertainty Modeling | |
| Semantic Annotation | |
| Information Extraction | |
| Ontology Population | |
| Bibliometrics | |
| Rhetorical Structure | |
| Machine Learning Evaluation | |
| Generative AI | |
| Knowledge-Based Methods |
| Academic Leadership and Management | |
| Research Coordination | |
| Doctoral Supervision | |
| Project Management | |
| Interdisciplinary Research | |
| Science Open Access | |
| Conference Organization |
| Science Communication and Public Engagement | |
| Scientific Dissemination | |
| Workshops | |
| Public Lectures | |
| Educational Material Development |