Špela Vintar

Contact:
Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, SI - 1000 Ljubljana
Tel.: +386 1 241 1500, Fax: +386 1 252 1310
Office hours: Tue 11.30 - 12.30, Room 010 (FF)
E-mail: spela.vintar@guest.arnes.si, vintar@dfki.de

• Affiliation

Dept. of Translation, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, teaching assistant, PhD student, Erasmus/Socrates coordinator
 
• Teaching

Translation Tools
Introduction to Terminology Science
Databases and Corpora
Technical Translation and Localization
Language Technologies for Translators and Linguists, HU Berlin (summer semester 2002)

• Research interests
• computational terminology
• term extraction from parallel corpora
• semantic relations
• cognates

• Recent projects and activities
• much.more - Multilingual Concept Hierarchies for Medical Information Organisation and Retrieval at DFKI (temporary researcher)
• TRANS - a parallel Slovene-English corpus of technical texts (student project 2001/2002); online concordancing
• 5th TELRI seminar "Corpus Linguistics: How to Extract Meaning from Corpora", 22-24 September 2000, Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts (head of the organising committee).
• FIDA - a Slovene reference corpus (involved in text acquisition, editorial work)
• ELAN - a Slovene-English parallel corpus (text acquisition, sentence alignment, further work in progress)
• Language Technologies: Multilingual Aspects - organisation of the workshop within the framework of the Societas Linguistica Europaea conference, held 8-9 July 1999 in Ljubljana

• Recently attended courses/workshops
• Workshop on "Linguistic Data Processing in the Training of Translators and Interpreters", Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting, University of the Saarland, 2-3 December 1998
• How to Use Corpora in Translation Work - held at the Tuscan Word Centre, 21-28 June 1999.
• Perl Tutorial for Linguists - conducted by Dr. Tamas Varadi, held in Ljubljana, 5-9 July 1999.
• Eurolan 2001, Iasi, Romania

• Membership

in the Slovenian Language Technologies Society (SDJT)

• Publications
 
• Vintar, Š.; Hansen, S. (2002). Cognates - Free Rides, False Friends or Stylistic Devices: A Corpus-Based Comparative Study. Meaningful Texts, University of Birmingham (to appear). .rtf
• Vintar, Š.; Buitelaar, P.; Ripplinger, B.; Sacaleanu, B.; Raileanu, D.; Prescher, D. (2002). An Efficient and Flexible Format for Linguistic and Semantic Annotation. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), pp. 1658-1662. .pdf
• Raileanu, D.; Buitelaar, P.; Vintar, Š.; Bay, J. (2002). Evaluation Corpora for Sense Disambiguation in the Medical Domain. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), pp.609-612. .pdf
• Ripplinger, B.; Vintar, Š.; Buitelaar, P. (2002). Cross-Lingual Medical Information Retrieval through Semantic Annotation. Proceedings of the Workshop Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Applications (NLPBA '02), Cyprus. .ps
• Vintar, Š. (2001). Using Parallel Corpora for Translation-Oriented Term Extraction. Babel Journal, John Benjamins Publishing (to appear). .rtf
• Vintar, Š.; Kipp, M. (2001). Multi-track Annotation of Terminology Using ANVIL. In: Ide, N. (ed.) Workshop on Multi-layer Corpus-based Analysis, Eurolan 2001, Iasi, Romania, pp. 1-13. .ps.gz
• Vintar, Š. (2001). Računalniška orodja za jezikoslovce in prevajalce. Zbornik 37. seminarja slovenskega jezika, literature in kulture, Ljubljana, Filozofska fakulteta. .rtf
• Dias, G.; Vintar, Š.; Pereira Lopes, G.; Guillore, S. (2000). Normalising the IJS-ELAN Slovene-English Parallel Corpus for the Extraction of Multilingual Terminology. In: Monachesi, P. (ed.) Proceedings of the CLIN '99 (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands). .rtf
• Vintar, Š.; Gorjanc, V. (2000). Identifying markers of semantic relations in Slovene. Proceedings of the 5th TELRI seminar, 22-24 September 2000, Ljubljana (to appear). .rtf
• Gorjanc, V.; Vintar, Š. (2000). Iskanja po korpusu slovenskega jezika FIDA. In: Erjavec, T./Gros, J. (ur.) Jezikovne tehnologije: zbornik konference (Language Technologies), v okviru kongresa Informacijska družba ’00, Ljubljana: Institut Jožef Stefan, str. 20-27.
• Vintar, Š. (1999). Računalniške tehnologije za prevajanje. Uporabna informatika (Applied Informatics) VII/1, pp.17-24, Ljubljana: Slovensko društvo Informatika. .rtf
• Vintar, Š. (1999). Računalniška orodja za prevajanje. Mostovi 1999/XXXIII, Ljubljana: Društvo znanstvenih in tehniških prevajalcev Slovenije. .rtf
• Vintar, Š. (1999). A Lexical Analysis of the ELAN Slovene-English Parallel Corpus. Proceedings of the workshop Language Technologies: Multilingual Aspects, within the framework of the SLE conference, July '99, Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta. .rtf
• Vintar, Š. (1999). A Parallel Corpus as a Translation Aid: Exploring EU Terminology in the ELAN Slovene-English Parallel Corpus. Proceedings of the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics, September '99, Germersheim, to be published by Peter Lang Verlag. .rtf
• Vintar, Š. (1999). Računalniško podprto iskanje terminologije v slovensko-angleškem vzporednem korpusu. Uporabno jezikoslovje (Applied Linguistics) 7-8, Ljubljana: Društvo za uporabno jezikoslovje. .rtf
• Vintar, Š. (1998). Programi s pomnilnikom prevodov s stališča morebitnega uporabnika. Proceedings of the conference Language Technologies for the Slovene Language, within the framework of the congress Information Society '98, October 1998, Ljubljana: Jozef Stefan Institute. .rtf
• Vintar, Š., Erjavec, T. (1998). Prednosti in omejitve programov s pomnilnikom prevodov. Proceedings of the congress "Jezik za danes in jutri", Društvo za uporabno jezikoslovje Slovenije/Slovenian Society of Applied Linguistics, October 1998, Ljubljana: Društvo za uporabno jezikoslovje. .rtf

 

 
 
 
 
 

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Last updated 04-10-2002.