Today I presented a scientific publication about measuring modified orthographic similarity between Bulgarian and Russian words at the Workshop “Multilingual Resources, Technologies and Evaluation for Central and Eastern European Languages”, held in conjunction with the scientific conference RANLP’2009. The paper is titled “A Knowledge-Rich Approach to Measuring the Similarity between Bulgarian and Russian Words” and

As part of my PhD research I attended the RANLP 2007 conference in Borovets, Bulgaria (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing – 2007) to present two scientific papers and a novel algorithm for measuring semantic similarity between words by searching Google and analyzing the local contexts comming for the returned page excerpts. Improved Word Alignments