| Name | Atanas Kostadinov Kiryakov |
| Contact data | Ontotext Lab, Sirma Group Corp. 135 Tsarigradsko Chausse, Sofia 1784, Bulgaria E-mail: naso.at.sirma.bg; Phone: (+359 2) 8091 555; Fax: 8091 426. |
| 2008-present | Executive Director of Ontotext AD, Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| 1993-2008 | Sirma Group, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Latest positions: head of Ontotext Lab, member of the board Past positions: software engineer, project manager. |
| 1994-present | President of BugSoft Co., since 1998 renamed to Diogenes Co., Sofia, Bulgaria |
| 1998-2000 | Ph.D. student at the Tuebingen-Sofia International Graduate Programme in Computational Linguistics and Represented Knowledge (CLARK), Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. |
| 1995, 1998, 1999 | Teaching assistant, Sofia University, Department of Computer Science, Declarative Formalisms for Knowledge Representation |
| 1990-1991 | Software engineer, Software Research & Development Laboratory, Programno Osiguryawane, Sofia University, Bulgaria |
| 1989-1990 | Software engineer, Research & Development Laboratory Programa, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2009-present | Chairman of the board of Namerimi (joint venture of NetInfo
and Ontotext, developing national web search technology), Sofia, Bulgaria
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| 2008-present | Member of the board of Sirma Group Holding, Sofia, Bulgaria
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| 2005-2008 | Member of the board of Sirma Group Corp, Sofia, Bulgaria
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| 2004-present | Member of the board of Fairway Consultants Limited, DBA Innovantage, Brighton, UK
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| 2003-2005 | Member of the board of Sirma AI EAD, Sofia, Bulgaria
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| 2001-2004 | Member of the board of BASSCOM
(Bulgarian Association of Software Companies)
Chair of its Working Group on Education, Research and Innovations |
| 2000-2005 | Member of the board of Sirma Group International Corp., Montreal, Canada.
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| 2000 | Organizer (together with Kiril Simov) of
OntoLex 2000
"Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases" workshop.
It initiated a serie of regular workshops OntoLex.
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| 2000-present | Head of Ontotext Lab. Leading Ontotext's participation in a number of research projects (check Ontotext projects). Product manager of the KIM Platform for semantic annotation, indexing, and retrieval, and OWLIM semantic repository. |
| 1999-2000 | Instill Purchase Web - b2b solution for
the food service industry. EJB back-end, JDK 1.2 client, ORACLE.
Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria (for Instill Corp., Palo Alto, CA) Role: team leader |
| 1998-1999 | Outsourcing services - research, proof-of-concept
prototypes and components for: applets, servlets, DHTML, distributed
Java applications. Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria (for Instill
Corp., Palo Alto, CA)
Role: team leader |
| 1998 | JYouth - An Internet high-load variant of Youth Projects
Database (see below), implemented on top of Oracle, using Java Servlets,
Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria (for WorkLogic.com,
Ottawa, Canada)
Role: research, design and development |
| 1998 | InterpriseSITE - Internet
CSCW product line, Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria (for WorkLogic.com,
Ottawa, Canada)
Role: team leader, design, development and coordination |
| 1997-2001 | Slovnik - inflectional
morphology engine (lemmatization and related functions) with front-ends. It was provided
with dictionaries for Bulgarian and Russian. First developed in Diogenes Co, it
is the basis for the
Slovnik product line, developed by
within Sirma Solutions and
Sirma Media.
Role: project leader, analysis and design |
| 1997-1999 | Competency Evaluation System - an extranet system for HRDC (Human
Resources Development Canada), Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria
Role: design and development |
| 1997 | Youth Projects Database - an Internet/Extranet system for HRDC
(Human Resources Development Canada) providing information about the youth
initiatives contributed by the Canadian government, Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia,
Bulgaria
Role: design and development |
| 1997 | Paper Tracking System - an extranet system for the Library of
Parliament of Canada, Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria
Role: software design and development |
| 1997 | Snowflake
- figure skating competition information system - BugSoft Co., Sofia,
Bulgaria
Role: project leader, analysis, design and development |
| 1995 | Workscape - computer
supported cooperative work environment, Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria
Role: software design and development |
| 1995 | Intelligent Workstation
- consulting expert system based on Boolean Constraint Propagation Networks,
Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria
Role: knowledge engineer, software development |
| 1994-1995 | BuildIS - Client/Server, information system
for building contractors, Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria (for
Geocon GMBH, Berlin, Germany)
Role: project leader, software design and development |
| 1994 | Patch - file and directory comparison and synchronization tool
set - BugSoft Co., Sofia, Bulgaria
Role: research, analysis, software design and development |
| 1994 | PostMan - communication software based on unique file transfer
protocol - BugSoft Co., Sofia, Bulgaria
Role: project leader, analysis, software design and development |
| 1993 | OmniSys
- software re-engineering (CASE) tool for automatic migration of
mainframe COBOL software, from hierarchical IMS to relational DB/2 DBMS,
Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria
Role: research, analysis, software design and development |
| 1990 | Unisys - object-oriented information
system with management consulting features, Programno Osiguryawane Software
R&D Lab.
Role: software development |
| 1989 | Personal - system facilitating the personnel selection, Programa R&D Lab. (for Ministry of National Defense) Role: software development |
| 1987 | System testing high school students knowledge in geography - interactive
tool, with visual effects, animation, etc. - Sofia High School of
Mathematics, Sofia, Bulgaria
Role: software design and development |
| Programming Languages: | Java, C++, Prolog, Lisp, C, Pascal, Assembler (Intel, VAX, IBM), FoxPro, Basic, JavaScript, VBScript |
| Knowledge Representation: | KIF, SRL, various DL dialects, RDF(S), DAML+OIL, OWL, WSML |
| DBMS: | Oracle; MS SQL Server; MS Access; Paradox; FoxPro; DB2; IMS; Poet |
| Other skills and abbreviations: | EJB, JDK 1.01-1.5, ERWin, RRose, (D)HTML, Servlets, (La)TeX, OLE 2, IIS, RMI |
More than 20 referred scientific publications. For complete list see OntoText Lab. list of publications.
Kiryakov, Atanas
Automatic Translation
between Declarative Formalisms for Knowledge Representation,
M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Sofia University, November
1995
Kiryakov, Atanas; Simov, Kiril Iv.
Ontologically Supported Semantic Matching.
In: Proceedings of “NODALIDA’99: Nordic Conference on Computational
Linguistics”, Trondheim, Dec. 9-10, 1999. Trondheim: NTNU.
Kiryakov, Atanas; Simov, Kiril Iv.
A comparison between Upper Cyc Ontology and EuroWordnet Top Ontology.
In: Proceedings of “OntoLex 2000: Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge
Bases”, Sozopol, Sept. 8-10, 2000.
Kiryakov, Atanas; Simov, Kiril Iv.
Mapping of EuroWordnet Top Ontology to
Upper Cyc Ontology.
In: Proceedings of “Ontologies and Text” workshop, during EKAW 2000.
Juan-les-Pins, French Riviera, Oct. 2-6, 2000.
Conference and workshop involvements as an organizer, member of the program committee, sponsor, or invited speaker:
2nd European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC2008)
(to be determined)
17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008)
April 21-25, 2008, Beijing, China
The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008)
January 7-12, 2008, Hyderabad, India
ISWC 2007: 6th International Semantic Web Conference
Including the
Semantic Web Challenge
November 11-15th , 2007, Busan, South-Korea
OntoLex 2007: From Text to Knowledge: The Lexicon/Ontology Interface
November 11th , 2007, Busan, South-Korea. Co-located with ISWC 2007
4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2007)
03 - 07 June, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria
1st European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC2007)
31 May - 1 June, 2007, Vienna, Austria
16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)
May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
ISWC 2006: 5th International Semantic Web Conference
November 5-9th , 2006, Athens, Georgia, USA
The Canadian Semantic Web Working Simposium (CSWWS2006)
Co-located with the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
6 June 2006, Ottawa, Canada.
3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2006)
Budva, Montenegro : 11-14 Jun 2006.
OntoLex 2006, co-located with LREC 2006.
Genova, Italy : 24-29 May 2006.
15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: 22-26 May 2006.
The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2006)
April 3-7 2006, Atlanta, GA, USA.
SSWS 2005: International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems
Part of the Sixth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering,
WISE 2005
New York City, USA: 20-22 November 2005.
ISWC 2005: 4th International Semantic Web Conference
Galway, Ireland: 6-10 November 2005. Including the
Semantic Web Challenge
Semantic Web Days
6-7 October 2005, Munich, Germany.
The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05)
France: 19-22 September 2005.
7th International conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering (TKE2005)
Copenhagen, Denmark: 17-18 August 2005.
2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2005)
Herssonisos, Crete, Greece: 29.5-1.6 2005.
3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004)
Hiroshima, Japan: 7-11 November 2004.
The 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04)
Beijing, China: 20-24 September 2004.
The Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
Methodology, Systems, Applications, AIMSA 2004
Varna, Bulgaria: 2-4 September 2004.
OntoLex 2004: Ontologies and Lexical Resources in Distributed Environments
Held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Language Reseources and Evaluation
(LREC2004)
LISBON, Portugal, 29th may 2004
Shallow Processing of Large Corpora, SProLaC 2003
Workshop at CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2003, Lancaster University (UK), 27 March, 2003.
OntoBIS: Ontologies for Business Information Systems
Special Session in conjunction with the 6th International Conference
on Business Information Systems BIS 2003, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA;
June 4-6, 2003.
Semantic Web Workshop at SIGIR 2003
26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, July 28 - August 1, 2003, Toronto, Canada
IESL 2003: Information Extraction for Slavonic and other Central and Eastern European Languages
Workshop at RANLP '2003.
Borovetz, Bulgaria: 8-9 September 2003.
ISWC 2003: 2nd International Semantic Web Conference
Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA: 20-23 October 2003.
EON2002 - Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools
OntoWeb-SIG3 Workshop at the 13th International Conference on
Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management EKAW 2002.
Siguenza (Spain), 30th September 2002.
Semantic Web Meets Language Resources
AAAI02 workshop held in conjunction with the Eighteenth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence. July 28 - 29, 2002 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
OntoLex 2002 - Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases
Held in conjunction with the 3rd International Language Resources
and Evaluation Conference, LREC2002
27th May 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain.
OntoLex 2000 - Ontologies and Lexical Knowledge Bases
Sozopol, Bulgaria: Sept. 8-10, 2000.