Eduard Barbu
Researcher at University of Tartu
Estonia
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Top SchoolEduard Barbu is a researcher with 11 years of experience specializing in Natural Language Processing and cognitive approaches to meaning, currently based at the University of Tartu. His work spans building parallel corpora and alignment tools for machine translation, multimedia-to-text linking, automatic summarization, and large-scale content extraction pipelines across European research projects. With a PhD in Cognitive Science and a background in theoretical linguistics and computer science, he blends formal linguistic insight with practical algorithm and pipeline engineering. He is particularly interested in the nature of concepts from AI, cognitive science, and philosophical perspectives, which informs both his research design and tool development. Notably, his career includes hands-on contributions to ontology-driven systems and name-entity disambiguation at scale, reflecting a knack for connecting symbolic and statistical methods.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Theoretical Linguistics, Master, Theoretical Linguistics at Universitatea din București / University of BucharestBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Politehnic University BucharestPhd, Cognitive Science, Phd, Cognitive Science at Doctoral School of CIMEC Rovereto-Trento Italy
English, Italian, French, Romanian, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
data-api5
api3
localization3
translation3
wordnet3
natural-language-processing2
nlp2
parallel2
python2
data-collection1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SoimulPatriei/TMCleaner
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 40 pushes in 10 months
translation-memoriescorporaparallel-corporaparallelsegments
SoimulPatriei/EstonianCoreferenceSystem
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
A machine learning based pronominal coreference system for Estonian language
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
estonianestonian-languagecoreferencemachine-learning
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