#elexis_bg – IBL

Visiting grants contact:

Svetla Koeva

Svetla Koeva

svetla@dcl.bas.bg

  • 52 Shipchenski Prohod Blvdr., block 17, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria

Find out more about ELEXIS visiting grants and former winning projects:

Institute for Bulgarian Language “Prof. Lybomir Andreychin” (IBL)

at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is a leading research organisation focused on theoretical and applied research of Bulgarian: theoretical, applied and computational linguistics; general and contrastive linguistics; lexicography and terminology; etymology, history of language and dialects, etc.

The main departments involved in ELEXIS are the Department of Bulgarian Lexicology and Lexicography and the Department of Computational Linguistics:

  • The Department of Bulgarian Lexicology and Lexicography works on theoretical issues and their application in dictionary compilation in three major directions: semantics, lexicology and theory of lexicography.
  • The Department of Computational Linguistics deals with development of theoretical models for formal description of language, development of language technologies to be implemented in various computer applications and systems, development of language resources and tools.
Existing tools and services:

The Institute for Bulgarian Language has been involved in the compilation of the majority of existing

In recent years a large number of Bulgarian dictionaries and other language resources focused on Bulgarian have been made available online aimed at researchers, teachers and students in Bulgarian language, as well as the wide public.

The Portal LexIT combines ten dictionaries and provides an integrated environment which allows the users to access all resources simultaneously in an easy and efficient manner. Visiting researchers will benefit from having access to all of the resources and services at the Institute for Bulgarian Language and will have at their disposal the expertise of researchers working at the Department of Bulgarian Lexicology and Lexicography and the Department of Computational Linguistics.

ELEXIS hosting institutions
Former grant winning projects
CC-BY 4.0, Sandra Lehecka
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“The opportunity to access query mechanisms & expertise within ELEXIS is a tremendous gain for my project.” – Asil Çetin

Veni - vidi - vici. Asil Çetin took part in ELEXIS' first call for travel grants and convinced the transnational access committee with his project idea: As an experienced software developer, he is ambitiously chasing his goal to develop a data visualization tool for language varieties, which can be adapted to any language source and any corpus engine. Read the details here:
Henrik Køhler Simonsen
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Henrik Køhler Simonsen, travel grant winner

Henrik Køhler Simonsen is curiously exploring new opportunities for lexicography and wants to go new paths for innovating common business models in terms of digitalization.
Ana de Castro Salgado
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Ana de Castro Salgado, travel grant winner

Ana de Castro Salgado is an experienced lexicographer and currently writing her doctoral thesis at FCSH-UNL / CLUNL. Her mission? To propose guiding criteria for inclusion and description of terms, combining lexicographic and terminological methods. Curious? Us too! So we asked her to answer a few questions: