Biography

E-mail: bbekavac[at]ffzg.hr

hrvatski jezik

Ph. D. Božo Bekavac, Assistant Professor

Born:

31/07/1972

Education:

I finished high school (MIOC-Mathematics and Informatics) in Split.

In 1997 I graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, with the majors in General Linguistics and Information Science.

I obtained my M.A. degree in 2001 with thesis entitled Application of NLP Tools in Croatian Corpora at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

In 2005 I obtained my Ph. D. degree with dissertation entitled Automatic Named Entity Recognition in Contemporary Croatian Texts.

I started to work as Research Fellow in 1997. in the Institute of Linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

In 2005 I am promoted to Senior Assistant at the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

In 2007 assistant professor at the Department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

Field of interest: 

Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC), corpus linguistics, linguistic tools ( Intex/Unitex, CL@RK, GATE ...), computational linguistics, markup languages (XML, SGML), ASP, Script Languages (VBscript, JavaScript)

Projects I am involved in:

• Development of Croatian language resources (Croatian national corpus) (MZT RH 0130418)

• Computational processing of Croatian language (Croatian national corpus) (MZT RH 130718): project concluded 2001.

• Croatian-Slovene parallel corpus (MZT RH 130821): project concluded in 2001.

Important references:

• Božo Bekavac (2001) , "Primjena računalnojezikoslovnih alata na hrvatske korpuse", MA thesis, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb   PDF   ps_zip

• Božo Bekavac (2001), "Primjena računalnojezikoslovnih alata na hrvatske korpuse", magistarski rad, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu      PDF   ps_zip

• Božo Bekavac (2002), "Strojno obilježavanje hrvatskih tekstova – stanje i perspektive", Suvremena lingvistika 53-54, str. 173-182    doc  pdf 

• Božo Bekavac, Marko Tadić (2003), "Preparation of POS tagging of Croatian using CLaRK System", Proceedings of RANLP 2003 Conference, (Borovets 2003), Bugarska akademija znanosti, str. 455-459  doc  pdf

• Božo Bekavac, Petya Osenova, Kiril Simov, Marko Tadić (2004), "Making Monolingual Corpora Comparable: a Case Study of Bulgarian & Croatian", Proceeedings Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC2004, (Lisbon, Portugal), str. 1187 - 1190   pdf

• Krešimir Šojat, Božo Bekavac, Marko Tadić, " Zašto nam treba hrvatski Wordnet?" (2005), Semantika prirodnog jezika i jezik semantike, Zbornik HDPL-a 2005, Zagreb - Split, str.733 - 743   PPT

• Branko Geci, Božo Bekavac (2005), "A Formal Model of text annotation based on XML entities", Zbornik radova XXVIII. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION, MEET & HGS, MIPRO 2005, Opatija, str. 295-300   

• Božo Bekavac, Krešimir Šojat, " Lexical acquisition through particular adjectival endings for Croatian", Workshop on Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition, Split, srpanj 2005, u tisku   

• Božo Bekavac (2005), "Strojno prepoznavanje naziva u suvremenim hrvatskim tekstovima", doktorska disertacija, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu     sažetak

• Marko Tadić, Božo Bekavac (2006), "Inflectionally Sensitive Web Search in Croatian using Croatian Lemmatization Server", Proceedings of 26th International Conference Information Technology Interfaces ITI 2006, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, SRCE, str. 481-486  

Invited lectures, conferences and other work:

• Božo Bekavac, "XML radionica", Croinfo, Dubrovnik, (2000)    HTML

• Božo Bekavac, "Tečaj računalne leksikografije Ramesha Krishnamurthyja", Suvremena lingvistika (0586-0296) 23 (1997), br. 43-44; pp 437-438

• Božo Bekavac, "Jezične tehnologije i hrvatski jezik ", author Marko Tadić, Suvremena lingvistika (0586-0296) 30 (2005) br. 57-58; pp. 128-131   

• Božo Bekavac, Krešimir Šojat, "Lexical acquisition through particular adjectival endings for Croatian", Workshop on Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition, Split, 27.07.2005.    PPT

• Božo Bekavac, "Sustav za prepoznavanje i klasifikaciju naziva za hrvatski", invited lecture, Jezikovnotehnološki abonma (JOTA), Ljubljana, 17.11.2005.    PPT

Member of organising committees:

• 7. TELRI Seminar (in cooperation with University of Birmingham and TELRI association), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 26th-29th september 2002.

• Workshop on Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition, Split, Croatia, 25th-28th. july 2005.

Memberships:

• ACL (The Association for Computational Linguistics)
  

• HFD (Hrvatsko filološko društvo)
  

• HDPL (Hrvatsko društvo za primjenjenu lingvistiku)
  

• SDJT (Slovensko društvo za jezikovne tehnologije)

Adress: Institute of linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, Ivana Lučića 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia