Professor Kalina Bontcheva
School of Computer Science
Professor of Text Analysis
Member of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) research group
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School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Professor Kalina Bontcheva is a senior researcher in the Natural Language Processing Group. From October 2015 she has been working on an EPSRC Career Acceleration Felllowship on summarisation of social media.
- Research interests
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Professor Kalina Bontcheva is working on , , , , and . She is demos co-chair at ACL'2014 and helped co-organise the biannual conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing".
Professor Bontcheva led the EU project on computing veracity of social media content. She is also the PI of the and European projects, and a Co-I of the project. Earlier in 2013 she completed leading the JISC-funded project.
Between 2006 and 2009 she was the Principal Investigator (PI) on 3 EU-funded projects (MUSING, TAO, and ServiceFinder) and the co-ordinator of the TAO consortium, which involved 7 partner institutions.
Between 2004 and 2006 Professor Bontcheva was Sheffield's technical project manager and researcher on the Integrated Project. Before that, she was Sheffield's technical manager and researcher on the e-science project and also contributed to the project. She has been working on Sheffield's open-source NLP infrastructure since 1999.
- Publications
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- Grants
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- Atrium: , Horizon Europe, 01/2024 - 12/2027, £370,950, as Co-PI
- VIGILANT: , Horizon Europe, 11/2022 - 10/2025, £476,955, as Co-PI
- SoBigData PPP: , Horizon Europe, 10/2022 - 09/2025, £60,326, as PI
- vera.ai: , Horizon Europe, 09/2022 - 08/2025, £776,703, as PI
- , EPSRC, 04/2019 to 09/2027, £5,508,850, as Co-PI
- Ireland Hub, EC, 09/2021 - 03/2024, £211,990, as PI
- SAI: , EPSRC, 02/2021 - 01/2024, £366,348, as Co-PI
- Responsible AI for Inclusive, Democratic Societies: , ESRC, 02/2020 - 01/2024, £508,135, as PI
- SoBigData ++: , EC H2020, 01/2020 - 12/2024, £720,926, as PI
- RISIS2: , EC H2020, 01/2019 - 12/2023, £476,741, as co-PI
- XAIvsDisinfo: , UKRI, 06/2021 - 03/2023, £288,337, as PI
- ELE, EC H2020, 01/2021 - 06/2022, £14,140, as PI
- Studying the spread and impact of COVID-19 anti-vaccine disinformation in the UK, Research England, 12/2020 - 03/2021, £41,164, as PI
- Online Abuse towards Public Figures, Government Officials, and Scientists During the COVID-19 Crisis, Research England, 07/2020 - 03/2021, £55,479, as PI
- ELG: , EC H2020, 01/2019 - 06/2022, £656,631, as PI
- WeVerify: , EC H2020, 12/2018 - 11/2021, £403,577, as PI
- Journalist-in-the-Loop Machine Learning as a Service for Rumour Analysis, Industrial, 11/2018 - 12/2019, £44,642, as PI
- Automatic Detection of Online Misinformation, Industrial, 03/2018 - 12/2020, £43,077, as PI
- , EC H2020, 09/2015 - 08/2019, £649,690, as Co-PI
- ChatBot: The development of a CHATBOT to support successful transition to adult care of young people with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, NIHR, 12/2020 - 05/2023, £18,622, as Co-PI
- COMRADES: , EC H2020, 01/2016 - 12/2018, £257,000, as PI
- OpenMinTed: , EC H2020, 06/2015 - 05/2018, £418,388, as Co-PI
- Individual Profiling through Text Analysis, Air Force Office of Scientific Research USA, 09/2014 - 09/2015, £10,746, as Co-PI
- PHEME: , EC FP7, 10/2013 - 12/2016, £489,421, as PI
- DecarboNET: , EC FP7, 10/2013 - 09/2016, £253,753, as PI
- uComp: , EPSRC, 11/2012 - 05/2016, £375,621, as Co-PI
- , EC FP7, 06/2012 - 05/2014, £394,226, as Co-PI
- Linked Data for Environmental Science, Joint Information Systems Committee, 06/2012 - 01/2013, £40,234, as PI
- TrendMiner: , EC FP7, 11/2011 - 10/2014, £400,991, as PI
- GATE Cloud Exploratory: , EPSRC, 02/2011 - 10/2011, £71,677, as Co-PI
- , EPSRC, 10/2010 - 05/2018, £591,755, as PI
- ServiceFinder: , EC FP7, 01/2008 - 12/2009, £206,407, as PI
- MUSING: , EC FP6, 04/2006 - 04/2010, £776,082, as PI
- TAO: , EC FP6, 03/2006 - 02/2009, £581,515, as PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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Member of the research group