Professor Ruslan Mitkov

Professor

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Ruslan Mitkov is a Professor of Computing and Communications at , actively working on different research topics from the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics and Translation Technology. He completed his PhD at under the supervision of and before that graduated from . Prior to joining ÃÛÌÒ´«Ãºmv, Prof Mitkov worked at the University of Wolverhampton where he created and led the internationally leading Research Group in Computational Linguistics, and was also Director of the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing as well as Director of the Responsible Digital Humanities Lab. He is Distinguished Viaiting Professor at the University of Alicante.

Dr Mitkov has published more than 280 refereed papers and is best known for his extensively cited contributions to anaphora resolution, his seminal work on computer-aided generation of multiple-choice tests as well as for his research on the development of new generation translation memory systems. His considerable contributions also include but are not limited the following NLP and Translation Technology topics: identification of cognates and false friends, text simplification, translation universals, bilingual term extraction, centering and evaluation. Prof Mitkov is passionate about using NLP for the benefit of society and more particularly, NLP for language disorders. He has done pioneering work on the use of NLP tools to assist people with autism.

Mitkov is the sole editor of the Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics () and the author of the book Anaphora Resolution (published by ), which have become standard textbooks in their fields. The was published in June 2022. He is also the Executive Editor of the journal as well as the Editor-in-Chief of ’ .

Prof Mitkov has supervised more than 30 PhD theses and more than 40 (including 26 two-year) Master dissertations to successful completion.

Prof Mitkov is Chair/Programme Chair of a number of international conferences on Natural Language Processing and Translation Technology such as , , , and many others. He has been keynote or invited speaker at more than 230 international conferences. Forthcoming conferences and events in the 2023-2024 academic year where Prof Mitkov is keynote speaker include (but are not limited to) the (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), the International Conference on Natural Language Processing (Goa, India, December 2023), conference (Chennai, India, February 2024), the International Annual Meeting on Computer-Assisted Translation and Terminology organised by UNESCO (Paris, France, March 2024), the 7th International Conference on English and ESP Lexicology and Lexicography: Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence 2024 (Alicante, Spain, May 2024), the 15th International Corpus Linguistics conference (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, May 2024), the (Edinburgh, June 2024), (La Rioja, Spain, June 2024), the Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society conference (Johannesburg, South Africa, June 2024), (El Escorial, Spain, July 2024), the (Lancaster, July 2024), the First International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (Burgas, Bulgaria, August 2024), (Valladolid, Spain, September 2024). He is also invited speaker at the (Chennai, India, December 2023), the Department of Linguistics and English Language, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ãºmv (Lancaster, May, 2024), Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland, May 2024) and the Evolution of TC 2024 conference (Sofia, Bulgaria, June 2024).

Ruslan Mitkov is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, Marie Curie Fellow, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Franche-Comt¨¦ in Besan?on, France and Distinguished Visiting Researcher at the , Spain.

Mitkov designed (and is still leading) the first and only ¨C an innovative and inspirational programme, with a strong research focus but an equally strong emphasis on business; leading companies in the global translation and language industry participate as associated partners.

In September 2022 the renowned (USA) presented Prof Mitkov with a certificate of distinguished collaboration which resulted in lasting impact on the strategic planning and decision making of the US organisation and their employment of NLP solutions to assessment for the last 17 years.

In recognition of his outstanding professional/research achievements, Prof Mitkov was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa three times. First, he was became Doctor Honoris Cause at in November 2011. At the end of October 2014 Dr Mitkov was conferred Professor Honoris Causa at and on 25 October 2022 Prof R Mitkov received the title ¡®Doctor Honoris Cause’ for the third time, this time awarded by , Sofia.

Selected Publications


Mitkov, R. 2002
Other contribution

SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language

SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language

  • SCC (Data Science)
  • UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language