NCC Lead Serbia
Prof. Cvetana Krstev teaches at the Library and Information Science Department at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology and was a Guest lecturer in several European universities in the course of different programmes in the past. Primarily, she received her Master’s degree in Mathematics and her PhD in Computer Science.
Within her scientific work, she took part in many national and international projects like META-NET, CESAR, several COST actions, and much more. She has developed the Serbian morphological e-dictionary and is one of the key contributors to the development of Serbian WordNet, the Corpus of Contemporary Serbian, the parallel Serbian/English corpus, Named-Entity Recognition System for Serbian, and many other language resources and tools. Furthermore, she is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal for Digital Humanities “InfoTheca”, a member of the editorial boards of two journals and a member of organizing and programme committees of numerous international conferences. She published more than 180 scientific articles in journals and conference proceedings in the broad area from library and information science to natural language processing. She is one of co-founders of the Association for Language resources and Tools – JeRTeh. She actively maintains cooperation with numerous research centers and group from France, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and North Macedonia.