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GATE team, Natural Language Processing Group Department of Computer Science
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Bio Sketch
Danica Damljanovic is a Research Associate in the GATE team in the Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK. She received her B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in informatics and software engineering from the Department of Information Systems and Technologies, FON - School of Business Administration in 2003 and 2007 respectively. Her primary research interests are in the areas of semantic technologies, ontologies and controlled languages.
Education
- October 2007 - present - PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield; supervised by prof. dr Hamish Cunningham.
- October 2003 - October 2007 - M.S. in Software engineering and informatics, FON - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, Serbia; supervised by prof. dr Vladan Devedzic.
- October 1998 - October 2003 - B.S. in Software engineering and informatics,
FON - School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, Serbia; supervised by prof. dr Vladan Devedzic.
Professional experience
- November 2006 - present: research associate in the GATE team in the Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK.
- April 2005 - November 2006: software engineer in Ceetel, Belgrade, working for European Dynamics, Greece.
- October 2003 - April 2005: Java developer in Telebet, Belgrade.
Research interests
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Ontologies, Controlled Languages, Usability of Natural Language Interfaces to Ontologies, Ontology-based E-Tourism Applications
Recent publications
- Damljanovic, D.,Bontcheva, K.. Enhanced Semantic Access to Software Artefacts. In Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE) held in conjunction with ISWC'08, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2008.
- Tablan, V., Damljanovic, D., Bontcheva, K.. A natural language query interface to structured information. In Proceedings of the 5h European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain, June, 2008. PDF
- Damljanovic, D., Tablan, V., Bontcheva, K.: A text-based query interface to owl ontologies. In: 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Mar- rakech, Morocco, ELRA (May 2008). PDF
- Damljanovic, D., Devedzic, V.: Applying semantic web to e-tourism. In Ma, Z.,Wang, H. (Eds.), The Semantic Web for Knowledge and Data Management: Technologies and Practices, IGI Global, New York, 2008, pp. 243-265.
- Damljanovic, D., Devedzic, V.: Semantic web and e-tourism. In Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Vol. VII, 2nd Ed., IGI Global, Hershey, PA, 2009, pp. 3426-3432.
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Recent projects
TAO
TAO is about how existing 'legacy' applications can migrate to open, semantic-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), via ontologies. This research project has finished in March 2009, and lasted 3 years (European Commission, Framework 6).
As a part of the TAO project we have developed a Question-based Interface to Ontologies (QuestIO). It transforms keyword-based queries or full-blown questions into SeRQL and SPARQL queries (click here for short demo about QuestIO, and here for the live presentation on videolectures).
Travel Guides
Travel Guides, intelligent Web portal in the area of tourism, is the prototype which illustrates how existing mainstream tourism applications can benefit from semantic web technologies, specifically ontologies. To read more about Travel Guides project click here.