Today Svetlin Nakov defended successfully his PhD thesis titled “Automatic Extraction of False Friends from Parallel Bilingual Corpus” and was awarded with the scientific and educational degree “Doctor of Philosopy” (PhD) in Informatics in the area of computational linguistics. The thesis was defended according to the Bulgarian law, in front of the Specialized Scientific Council

Today I presented at the prestigious scientific conference RANLP’2009 a research paper about new methods of extraction of false friends from parallel corpora, which is a major part of my PhD thesis. The article is named “Unsupervised Extraction of False Friends from Parallel Bi-Texts Using the Web as a Corpus” and was accepted after passing

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