If one's view of language is that it is a probability distribution over strings of letters or sounds,
one turns one's back on the scientific achievments of the ages.
Good engineering requires good science.
Martin Kay
Kostadin Cholakov
Age: 27
Nationality: Bulgarian
| 09/2008- present | PhD student, CLCG, University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 10/2006- 09/2008 | Master in Language Science and Technology,
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany Master's thesis: A Plethora of Methods for Improving Robustness of Lexicalized Grammars |
| 10/2003- 10/2006 | B.A. in Computational Linguistics,
University of Tübingen, Germany Major: Computational Linguistics Minor: General Linguistics B.A. thesis: Negative Concord in Serbian with a Typological Comparison with Other Slavic Languages |
| 1998- 2003 | Saint Clement of Ohrid Foreign Language School,
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria Languages: English, Spanish |
| 1991- 1998 | Primary School, Goce Delchev, Bulgaria |
| 05/2007- 09/2008 | Research assistent at the German Center for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany A member of the EPO machine translation project |
| 10/2006- 05/2007 | Software Developer, CLT Sprachtechnologie,
Saarbrücken, Germany Processing of large XML-annotated corpora. Management of morphological resources used in dialogue modelling and processing |
| 10/2005- 08/2006 | System Administrator at the
General Linguistics Department,
University of Tübingen, Germany Administration of the Mac network at the department |
| 07/2005- 09/2005 | Internship at the European Media Laboratory
(EML), Heidelberg, Germany Participation in the Semantic Information Retrieval project |
Bulgarian (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
German (fluent)
Russian (very good)
Dutch (very good)
Spanish (very good)
| Operating systems | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X |
| Programming Languages | Python, Perl, Java, XML (advanced) XSLT, XQuery, JavaScript (intermediate) PROLOG (basic knowledge) |
| Web | Design, layout and management of static (HTML) and dynamic (Djungo, MySQL, JavaScript) web sites, CSS |
| Software | LaTeX, R, Office suites, Emacs, Eclipse |
Politics, economics, military equipment, military planes, literature, music, arts