Svetlozara Leseva received a Bachelor's degree in Bulgarian Studies and a Master's degree in Computational Humanities from Sofia University, Bulgaria, as well as a PhD from the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Currently, she is a senior assistant professor at the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her main research interests are both in theoretical linguistics in the field of semantics, frame semantics, morphology, syntax, lexicology, multiword expressions, etc., and in computational linguistics – developing monolingual and multilingual linguistic resources with a focus on Bulgarian, linguistic annotation, natural language processing, etc.
Ivelina Stoyanova holds a Bachelor's degree in Bulgarian Studies and a Master's degree in Computational Humanities from Sofia University, Bulgaria, a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with Mathematics from the University of Bath, UK, as well as a PhD from the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2024 she is a senior assistant professor at the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her main research interests are predominantly in the field of computational linguistics – computational semantics, developing monolingual and multilingual linguistic resources with a focus on Bulgarian, linguistic annotation, developing methods for natural language processing, large language models, etc.