Res. Assoc. Dr. Kaja Dobrovoljc
Kaja Dobrovoljc, a research associate at the Department of Slovene Studies, holds an undergraduate degree in translation studies and a doctoral degree in Slovene linguistics. As a member of the research programme Language Resources and Technologies for Slovene, her main research interests lie in the design, annotation and evaluation of machine-readable language resources, and their use in descriptive language research.
She currently leads a post-doctoral project SPOT – Treebank-Driven Approach to the Study of Spoken Slovenian (2022–2024) and actively participates in the COST Action UniDive – Universality, diversity and idiosyncracy in language technology (2022–2024).
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Selected publications:
Dobrovoljc, K. (2020). Identifying dictionary-relevant formulaic sequences in written and spoken corpora. International Journal of Lexicography, 33(4), 417-442. https://academic.oup.com/ijl/article-abstract/33/4/417/5819579
Dobrovoljc, K. (2017). Multi-word discourse markers and their corpus-driven identification: The case of MWDM extraction from the reference corpus of spoken Slovene. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 22(4), 551-582. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/ijcl.16127.dob
Dobrovoljc, K., Erjavec, T., & Krek, S. (2017). The Universal Dependencies treebank for Slovenian. V Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing (str. 33-38). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1406.pdf
Dobrovoljc, K., Krek, S., & Erjavec, T. (2017). The Sloleks Morphological Lexicon and its Future Development. In: V. Gorjanc, P. Gantar, I. Kosem, S. Krek (ed.). Dictionary of Modern Slovene: Problems and Solutions. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. https://e-knjige.ff.uni-lj.si/znanstvena-zalozba/catalog/download/2/1/47-1
Dobrovoljc, K., & Nivre, J. (2016). The Universal Dependencies treebank of spoken Slovenian. V Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16) (str. 1566-1573). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L16-1248/
