Curriculum vitae
Date of birth: March 24,1966
Education
1984 - 1989 University of Latvia, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, student
1993 - 1996 University of Latvia, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, PhD student
January, 1993 March, 1993 research studies at Stockholm university
April, 1994 October, 1994 research studies at Lund University (Sweden)
January, 1995 April, 1995 research studies at the Centre of Language Technology, the University of Copenhagen
July, 2000 - NATO Advanced Study Institute on Language Engineering for Lesser Studied Languages
Academic Degrees
1989 Mathematician
1994 Mag. Comp. Sc.
1997 Dr. Comp. Sc., "Latvian Language Modelling for Artificial Intelligence Systems"
Research activities
I.Skadiņa graduated with honours from the Univerity of Latvia in 1989. In this year she joined the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, the University of Latvia.
Her research interests are concerned with Computational Linguistics. She has been working on development of automated Latvian-English-Russian terminology dictionary, has developed Latvian morphology processing tools, limited syntax model of Latvian and Machine Translation model LATRA. Recently her research interests are concerned with syntax, semantics and Machine Translation.
I.Skadiņa was a project director for the following research projects: in 1994 "Computer Aided Model of the Latvian Morphology" funded by Soros Foundation - Latvia; 1994-1996 "Limited Model of Automated Machine Translation System for Latvian" funded by the Latvian Council of Science, 1997-2000 "Development of Probabilistic Methods for Automated Disambiguation of Natural Language Texts and Applications for Machine Translation" funded by the Latvian Council of Science. Since 2001 she has been a project manager of the project "Automated synthesis of language independent text representation" funded by the Latvian Council of Science.
I. Skadiņa participated in the following international projects: TELRI-II (Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure) funded by the EC Fifth Framework programme, UNL (Universal Networking Language) funded by the United Nations University.
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16.05.2002