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Name Iana Atanassova
Title Full Professor in Natural Language Processing
Email 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

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 2014.09 - 2015.08
    Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing
    Université de Franche-Comté, France
    Teaching and research in NLP, including computational linguistics courses.
  • 2014.01 - 2014.08
    Post-doctoral fellow
    Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
    Semantic processing of corpora in humanities and social sciences.
  • 2012.03 - 2013.06
    Research and Development Manager
    MyScienceWork
    Implemented search engine for scientific papers for a social network specializing in scholarly communication.

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Education

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