Dr. Daniela Gifu

Daniela Gifu is a PhD scientific researcher II at the Romanian Academy - Iasi Branch and Assoc.Prof. at the Petre Andrei University of Iaşi, Romania. In terms of research expertise, she has a significant experience in the field of computational linguistics, natural language processing, especially in text processing (topic identification, semantic annotation, epoch detection, diachrony, word sense disambiguation, name entity recognition – identification and classification, sentiment analysis, web of linked data, information retrieval) both in Romanian, English, and Italy. She also has experience in social media analysis (Twitter, YouTube) and language modelling. Since 2010, she has involved students from UAIC-FII in Corpus Linguistics and semantic evaluation challenges: SemEval. Their results are always in the first half of the competition ranking. She has been involved in 14 research projects on the European and national levels (6 international and 8 national) (e.g., CA18209_European network for Web-centred linguistic data science) and she has a well-established experience as a NLP member or project leader. With over 250 conferences talks and 250 publications, indexed in international databases-DBLP, SCOPUS, ISI Web of Knowledge, IEEE Computer Society, and LNCS/LNAI by Springer. Her h-indexes are 17 on Google Scholar, 7 on Scopus, etc. – she enjoys a constantly recognizable image in her professional field.