Darja Fišer

Darja Fišer is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, currently active in the fields of computer-mediated communication and lexical semantics using corpus-linguistics methods and natural language processing.

The topic of her PhD was Slovene semantic lexicon construction with automatic methods. In her post-doctoral project, she worked on translation equivalent and false friend detection in non-parallel corpora. She is currently leading a national research project on the development of resources, tools and methods for the processing of Slovene user-generated content (http://nl.ijs.si/janes/english/), co-ordinating an interdisciplinary national research project on developing resources, methods and tools for the understanding, identification and classification of socially unacceptable discourse in the information society (http://nl.ijs.si/frenk/english/) and is a project member of a national research project on the corpus construction, processing and analysis of Slovene academic language (http://nl.ijs.si/kas/english/).

She is Chair of the Unit for lexicology, terminology and language technologies at the Department of Translation, President of the Slovenian Language Technologies Society, Chair of the FoLLi Steering Committee of the biggest European summer school on language, logic and computation ESSLLI (http://www.folli.info/?page_id=45) and Director of User Involvement  of the European research infrastructure for language resources and technology (https://www.clarin.eu). She has been awarded for outstanding research achievement by the National Research Agency in 2011 and has received a best paper award at the international conference LTC in Poznan, Poland in 2007. She is a member of several editorial boards of international scientific journals, and programme committee member of about 10 annual international conferences. She has been Chair of the programme committees and organizing committees of several national and international conferences and summer schools.