 
															Direction: Linguistics
Position:Full Professor
Since 2014 Irina Lobzhanidze works as an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Ilia State University and teaches courses for BA, MA and PhD students with majors in “Georgian Studies” and “Applied Linguistics”. In 2013 she graduated with a Dr. Phil. in Linguistics from Ilia State University (Georgia). The dissertation topic concerns the morphosyntactic features of Georgian idioms and degree of their frozenness. 2010-2013 as a Scientific Secretary of a peer-reviewed academic journal Kadmos provided its inclusion into the EBSCO database. In 10 years of research on Georgian Language she covered topics on Natural Language Processing, particularly, the computational modeling of Modern Georgian Language implemented as a finite-state transducer (xfst, lexc) and development of Georgian Language Corpus and compiled the Online Dictionary of Idioms.
Featured publications
An extensive list of publications
Language and Technologies; Syntax Theory and Generative Grammar; Translation and Translation Technologies; Programming for Humanities
Computational Linguistics; Computational Linguistics (ENG); Linguistic Research Methods; Seminar in Corpus Linguistics; Seminar: Digital Issue
Research Projects:
Digital Humanities (Digital Epigraphy, Computational Linguistics, Digital Prosopography), Young Scholar, financed by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, 2016-2020
On-line Dictionary of Idioms, Principal Investigator, financed by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, 2014-2017
Corpus Annotation and Analysis Software for Modern Georgian Language, Linguistic Coordinator, financed by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, 2012-2014
Parallel Corpus of the Georgian Chronicles, Linguistic Coordinator, financed by the Ilia State University, 2011-2012
Parallel Corpus of the Knight in the Panther’s Skin, Linguistic Coordinator, financed by the Ilia State University, 2011-2012
Georgian-Modern Greek Dictionary of Idioms, Principal Investigator, financed by the Foundation for Georgian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009-2010
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