Senja Pollak

Dr. Senja Pollak is an assistant professor of Language Technologies and work as a researcher at the Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI). Her research interests include natural language processing, text mining, corpus linguistics, and computational creativity. She also teaches language technologies and computational creativity at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School. From 2018 to 2019, she was a research fellow at the Usher institute of the University of Edinburgh.

She has co-authored more than 30 academic journal papers (including journals Computational linguistics, Natural language engineering, Language resources and evaluation, Pragmatics), more than 130 papers in conference/workshop proceedings, 7 articles in monographs, contributed to more than 20 public datasets, and co-edited 5 conference/workshop proceedings, one journal special issue, and co-organised 3 shared tasks. Her work has been twice recognised as outstanding contributions to science by Slovenian research agency award