Experience

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  University of Zurich

  • Switzerland
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Postdoc (PI) @ CAPIRE

    • Oct 2023 - Present

    Multimodal identity recognition.

  • Postdoc (PI) @ LiRI

    • Oct 2021 - Present

    Computational multimodal interaction analysis.Software Design - VideoScope.

  • Doctoral Researcher @ Slavisches Seminar and Language and Space Lab

    • Sep 2016 - Sep 2021

    Low-resourced NLP and corpus-based analysis of language variation.

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  Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

  • Protecting immaterial heritage of the Torlak vernacular

    • Sep 2015 - Jul 2017

    The project has the goal of protecting and preserving the endangered Torlak vernacular by collecting linguistic samples of it in audio and video format and presenting them through a web page with various search options, an interactive map, being only one of them. I am working as one of the researchers the field, collecting speech samples, but I am also a corpus linguistics specialist in charge of creating an Internet archive of the Torlak vernacular.

  • Reserch assistant

    • Jan 2014 - Aug 2016

    Field research assistantCorpus linguisticsDialecticologyLexicographyTranscription

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  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  • Belgrade / Berlin

  • Transcription and corpus linguistics expert

    • Jul 2015 - Dec 2016
    • Belgrade / Berlin

    The goal of the project is the creation of a corpus of oral narratives in the light of Labov’s narrative theory and Constructive grammar, as two theoretical frameworks. My role is to provide transcription training in EXMARaLDA using HIAT conventions, and monitoring the process of transcription. I am also involved in the annotation process and the creation of the corpus.

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  ReLDI Centre Belgrade

  • Belgrade

  • Normalisation and annotation supervisor

    • Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
    • Belgrade

    The Regional Linguistic Data Initiative (ReLDI) project aims at building a joint repository for linguistic data and language technology for Croatian and Serbian, two closely related South Slavic languages. The project is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation under the SCOPES (Scientific co-operation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland) programme. My role is to supervise the normalisation and annotation process.