#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
Ivana Filipović Petrović
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Ivana Filipović Petrović, travel grant winner

Ivana Filipović Petrović is an experienced lexicographer, working on completing the Croatian Dictionary of the Literary Language. Her special task: to (retro)digitize and publish it online in order to computer-process its corpus.