Researcher

Full Professor

Dr Špela Vintar is researcher at the Centre of Network Infrastructure at the Jožef Stefan Institute and full professor at the Department of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Her research interests span various areas of digital linguistics and language processing, including terminology and knowledge mining, where she was leader of TermFrame which created a multilingual frame-based knowledge base, and researcher at JANES exploring terminology in non-standard Slovene; machine translation (involvement in the Development of Slovene in the Digital Environment project); sign language, where she was leader of SIGNOR, and more recently also cognitive approaches to semantics and language modelling by heading the SWOW-SL word association collection, and the evaluation and benchmarking of LLMs within the LLM4DH project, where she explores nuanced language and bias. She is the founder and co-ordinator of the Joint Master in Digital Linguistics, established on the basis of an awarded KA2-Erasmus+ project DigiLing: Trans-European e-learning hub for Digital Linguistics.