Iryna Gurevych

Iryna Gurevych (born on March 16, 1976 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine)[1] is a Soviet and German computer scientist. She is Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt and Director of Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab.

Life

Gurevych received her diploma in English and German Linguistics from the Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University in 1998. In 2001, she received her Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from University of Duisburg-Essen.[1]

Since 2014, she is Co-Director of the Centre for the Digital Foundation of Research in the Humanities, Social, and Educational Sciences (CEDIFOR), which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.[2]

Her 2008 article about extraction of lexical semantics from Wikipedia and Wiktionary have sparked the interest to study the later more thoroughly.[3] In 2016, regarding fake news she said that it will be difficult to validate the information content for truth or falsehood.[4] She is an author of Linked Lexical Knowledge Bases: Foundations and Applications.[5]

Awards

References
  1. UKP. "Biographical Information". UKP – Technische Universität Darmstadt. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  2. "Mitglieder – CEDIFOR" (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  3. Torsten Zesch; Christof Müller; Iryna Gurevych (28 May 2008). "Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary" (PDF). LREC. Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab: 1646–1652.
  4. Gerd Altmann (28 December 2016). "Neue Tools sollen Qualität von Online-Texten analysieren". Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  5. Iryna Gurevych; Judith Eckle-Kohler; Michael Matuschek (2016). Linked Lexical Knowledge Bases: Foundations and Applications. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. ISBN 978-1627059749.
  6. "DFG - GEPRIS - Professorin Dr. Iryna Gurevych". gepris.dfg.de. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  7. "IBM Forschungspreis geht an die TU Darmstadt". idw-online.de. Retrieved 2019-10-29.


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