1. Iana Atanassova Research: – Information retrieval in scientific publications exploiting semantic annotations and linguistic knowledge bases – Ranking algorithms – Similarity measures using semantic annotation categories (semantic maps) – User interfaces

2. Challenges – Information retrieval in scientific publications : The notion of relevance in relation to semantic categories present in texts, i.e. “hypothesis”, “definition”, “citation”, etc. – Automatic semantic annotation of scientific texts: hedging, speculations, definitions, etc. – Scientific article invariants related to the use of semantic categories by authors – Large-scale processing of corpora – technical solutions for XML and PDF processing

3. Iana Atanassova Ph.D. in Mathematics, Computer Science and Applications to Human Sciences Associate Researcher at STIH Laboratory, Paris-Sorbonne University Subjects of interest: – Semantic search engines and interfaces – Automatic semantic annotation: knowledge-based approaches and machine learning – Scientific paper processing and syntheses – Definition extraction Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=ID7dSuIAAAAJhttp://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=ID7dSuIAAAAJ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Iana_Atanassovahttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Iana_Atanassova E-mail: iana.atanassova@gmail.comiana.atanassova@gmail.com