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Goran Glavaš
Assistant Professor for Natural Language Processing
Faculty of Business Informatics and Mathematics, University of Mannheim
Data and Web Science Group
B6, 27-29 (Building C, Room C1.02)
68161 Mannheim, Germany
E-mail: goran@informatik.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: +49 621 181 2637
Mobile: +49 176 361 52 631
Professional info
I'm an Assistant Professor at the Data and Web Science group of the University of Mannheim, primarily working in the area of natural language processing (NLP). Other areas of research and professional interests include machine learning, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence in general. Within NLP, I especially focus on lexical and computational semantics, information extraction (primarily events and temporal information), multilingual and cross-lingual NLP, and NLP applications for social sciences and humanities (dominantly political science).
Work experience
Assistant Professor for NLP. DWS, University of Mannheim
September 2017 - present
Postdoctoral Researcher. DWS, University of Mannheim.
October 2015 - August 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher. TakeLab, University of Zagreb.
May 2014 - September 2015
Research Assistant. TakeLab, University of Zagreb.
May 2011 - April 2014
Software Developer. Secom d.o.o, Rijeka, Croatia.
October 2010 - April 2011
Scientific and professional interests
Natural language processing
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Lexical and computational semantics
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Information extraction
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Multilingual and cross-lingual NLP
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NLP applications
Machine learning
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Deep learning
Information retrieval
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Semantic search
Artificial intelligence
Education
PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence).
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
October 2010 - April 2014
Thesis: "Information Extraction and Retrieval Based on Event Graphs"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Šnajder
Master in Computer Science (Profile: Software Engineering).
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
September 2008 - June 2010
Thesis: "Information System for Tracking of Marine Mammals"
Bachelor in Computer Science (Module: Software Engineering).
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
September 2005 - July 2008
Thesis: "Database for Tracking Financial Activities of a Company"