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| | Mariana Damova is the CEO of Mozaika, a company providing research and solutions for data science, natural interfaces, and human insight. Mozaika specializes in building semantic information infrastructures in different verticals, such as business information delivery, human resources management, cultural heritage, earth observation, and water management. Her background is in natural language processing, semantic web technologies, and artificial intelligence (AI), with significant academic and industry experience in Europe and North America. She has taught graduate courses, conducted research, and led international interdisciplinary projects and teams on virtual customer service, speech-to-speech machine translation, search based on linguistic principles, voice-enabled emotion recognition, an expert system supporting child protective services, water resources management, content mapping, and historical archives. She has collaborated with many different universities and organizations, including The National Archives of the UK, the British Museum, the Historical Archives of the European Commission, the European Space Agency, Europeana, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Mariana holds a PhD from the University of Stuttgart and a mini-MBA from McGill University, and currently teaches a graduate course at New Bulgarian University. She has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since 2008, and has authored more than 50 publications (books and papers) related to linguistics and semantic technologies. Mariana enjoys museums, theater, and reading. |
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 Learning to suggest questions in social media
Zhou T., Lyu M., King I., Lou J. Knowledge and Information Systems 43(2): 389-416, 2015. Type: Article
Proposing a combined approach that uses several sources of information, this paper advances the state of the art of automatically detecting similar language utterances and identifying similar user intentions in multilingual settings.
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Jun 15 2015 |
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SSTDE: an open source semantic spatiotemporal data engine for sensor web
Yu L., Liu Y., Lee J. SWE 2012 (Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement, Redondo Beach, CA, Nov 6, 2012) 9-16, 2012. Type: Proceedings
Presenting an approach to optimizing the storage and search of spatiotemporal information in a semantic format, this paper makes a fine contribution to the semantic web and sensor data processing communities....
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Jul 9 2013 |
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Classifying Web search queries to identify high revenue generating customers
Ortiz-Cordova A., Jansen B. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63(7): 1426-1441, 2012. Type: Article, Reviews: (2 of 2)
The subject of this paper is an experiment that analyzed user behavior in terms of practical consequences. The researchers wanted to make a connection between the intent of a user query and the user’s subsequent actions on th...
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Oct 12 2012 |
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Facet lens: local exploration and discovery in globally faceted data sets
Lambeck C., Wojdziak J., Groh R. DESIRE 2011 (Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Oct 19-21, 2011) 85-88, 2011. Type: Proceedings
This paper contributes to the research on human-device interaction. It describes an experimental method of faceted search based on using contextual information from a multi-touch device. The proposed method combines a classical facet-b...
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Mar 19 2012 |
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Ontologies in urban development projects
Falquet G., Métral C., Teller J., Tweed C., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2011. 249 pp. Type: Book (978-0-857297-23-5)
This book, a collection of papers by different authors, presents an overview of the theory and practice of ontology engineering. Most of the book is dedicated to introductory concepts and methods related to ontology and ontology design...
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Dec 2 2011 |
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Commonsense computing (episode 6): logic is harder than pie
VanDeGrift T., Bouvier D., Chen T., Lewandowski G., McCartney R., Simon B. Koli Calling 2010 (Proceedings of the 10th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, Berlin, Germany, Oct 28-31, 2010) 76-85, 2010. Type: Proceedings
An experiment involving an evaluation of the ease of understanding the logical operators XOR and NAND is described in this paper. Studies in this domain--education in logic--have been carried out only recently....
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Aug 18 2011 |
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Information extraction for search engines using fast heuristic techniques
Hong J., Siew E., Egerton S. Data & Knowledge Engineering 69(2): 169-196, 2010. Type: Article
This neatly organized paper presents an approach for designing wrappers that outperform the current state-of-the-art wrappers--ViNT and DEPTA. The main objective of the reported research is to develop an automated nonvisual wr...
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Aug 12 2010 |
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Mind as machine: a history of cognitive science
Boden M., Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, 2008. 1712 pp. Type: Book (9780199543168)
This book is an outstanding and very detailed contribution to the history of human thought, giving a very thorough overview of the evolution of cognitive science....
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Jul 9 2009 |
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Modeling semantic Web services: the Web service modeling language
Bruijn J., Fensel D., Kerrigan M., Keller U., Lausen H., Scicluna J., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008. 192 pp. Type: Book (9783540681694), Reviews: (1 of 2)
A very timely and deserving contribution to the future of the Web, this book is an outstanding overview of the state of affairs in the realm of development techniques and current approaches to the modeling (and automating) of semantic ...
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Dec 10 2008 |
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Linking information for mobile use
Myers R., Zapata E., Singh G. Computer human interaction in mobile technology (Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications, and Systems and the 1st International Symposium on Computer Human Interaction in Mobile Technology, Singapore, Sep 10-12, 2007) 607-613, 2007. Type: Proceedings
A very deserving contribution to information management, one of the most prominent topics of the day, this paper demonstrates how users’ ability to manage information can be improved by using optimally designed interfaces for...
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Aug 11 2008 |
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