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Lydia Sinapova
Curriculum Vitae
Affiliation
Department of Computer Science, Simpson College
701 North C Street, Indianola, IA 50125
Education
All degrees are received from Sofia University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
1995
Ph.D.
Mathematics and Computer Science (Network models for linguistic
knowledge representation and processing)
1975
M.S.
Mathematics with concentration in Computer Science
1973
B.S.
Mathematics
Academic Positions
2012 –
Professor, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa
2005 – 2012
Associate Professor, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa
1999 – 2005
Assistant Professor, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa
1994  1999
Assistant Professor, Institute of Information Technologies, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences (BAS)
1990  1994
Research Associate, Institute of Informatics, BAS
1980  1990
Research Associate, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics, BAS
1975  1980
Mathematician, Institute of Mathematics, BAS
Teaching Experience
Object-oriented programming, C++, Java, Python, C#, R
Data structures and algorithms
Advanced algorithms
Discrete mathematics
Principles of programming languages
Operating systems
Human-computer interface design principles and considerations
Fundamentals of computing: automata theory, formal languages, computability
Introduction to artificial intelligence
Knowledge representation and reasoning: knowledge-based systems, expert systems
Natural language processing
Web Development (HTML, CSS, PHP)
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NSF grant: CCF-1143839 Modeling and Analysis of Molecular Programming and
Nanoscale Self-Assembly. Collaborative research with the Department of Computer
Science at Iowa State University
Maytag-McElroy Undergraduate Research Grants, Iowa College Foundation
Carl Davidson (2009). Identifying Gene Regulatory Networks
Algorithms.
Using Evolutionary
Andrew Dau (2009). Comparative Study of Bayesian and Boolean Network Models for
Identifying Gene Regulatory Networks.
Maya Hristakeva (2005). Using Data Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms for
Analysis and Prediction of College Students’ Success.
Undergraduate Research Advising (Simpson College)
Most of the projects that I have supervised are on genetic algorithms and topics in
Bioinformatics. Recently I have supervised a team of students working in DNA tile selfassembly. A list of outstanding student research projects is given at
http://simpson.edu/computer-science/opportunities-for-involvement/research/.
Membership in Professional Societies
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Association for Computing Machinery
Services
CUR councilor in the Division of Mathematics and Computer Science (2008 – 2014)
Faculty Committees and working groups at Simpson College:
Current: Executive Committee for Undergraduate Research
Past: Assessment and Program Review Committee, Information Literacy Panel,
Learning Resources Committee, Multicultural and Minority Issues Committee,
Admissions Committee, Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee, Integrative
Learning Action Group, Learning Programs Working Group
Research and Development Projects (1975 – 1997, Bulgaria)
Major Achievements
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Developed a hybrid model for natural language processing based on distributed
computations in a network logic programming environment. Implemented a parsing
algorithm with spreading activation control and three inference mechanisms - data
driven, goal-driven and default. Developed parsing techniques with default reasoning.
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Developed morphosyntactic specifications and lexical resources for alignment of
parallel multilingual text corpora. (International language engineering project
COPERNICUS COP006 "MULTEXT-EAST - Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora
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for Central and Eastern European Languages, 1995-1997 (http://nl.ijs.si/ME/V4/)
Coordinated by Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Centre National de la Recherché
Scientifique, Aix-en-Provence, France. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/multexteast/)
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Designed, implemented and tested the knowledge base, the inference engine and the
interface module of an expert system in dysmorphology (Joint project with the
Academy of Medical Sciences, Bulgaria)
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Designed and implemented task monitoring module and the operator's interface
module of a unified microprocessor on-line control system for ball mill grinding
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Designed and implemented a mnemonic language for specifying robot tasks
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Implemented software modules for pallet control industrial robots RB-230, model
PC-501
International Projects on Advanced Technologies in Education
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TEMPUS Joint European Project 07272 University Network for Information
Technologies Education in Economic, Social and Political Sciences, Business and
Humanities L’Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris. (1995)
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TEMPUS Joint European Project 1728-91 University Network for Coordination and
Development of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Information Technologies in
Education. Free University in Brussels - AI laboratory. (1993)
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TEMPUS Joint European Project 1497-91 Transfer of Knowledge-based Systems
Skills to Bulgaria. School of Cognitive Sciences, University of Sussex, UK. (1992)
Honors and Awards
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Second prize awarded by the Program Committee of the First National Conference
"Medical Cybernetics'89" October 15  18, 1989, Golden Sands, Varna, Bulgaria, for
the paper: Zlatareva, N., L. Sinapova, I. Popchev, S. Stephanov, S. Boyadjiev, E.
Simeonov and T. Jellezova. "An Expert system in dysmorphology".
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Gold Medal for "Microprocessor controller for industrial robots RB-230, model PC501", awarded at Plovdiv International Fair, September 26  October 05, 1980.
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Certificate No 218/01.07.1980 for acknowledgment of excellence for
"Microprocessor controller for industrial robots RB-230" issued by the Ministry of
Machinebuilding and the State Committee for Science and Technology.
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Author certificate No 40282 MPK G 05 B 19/42, registered No 46116, 1979 for
"Industrial robot control" issued by INRA - Institute for Innovations in Industry at the
Ministry Counsel, Bulgaria.
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Certificate No 139/16.01.1979 for acknowledgment of excellence for "Type-writing
machine for stenographing and decoding MSD 1300" issued by the Ministry of
Machine Building and the State Committee for Science and Technology, Bulgaria.
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Full Record of Publications
Scholarly Papers
Sinapova, L. Teaching “Principles of Programming Languages” through Design and
Implementation of a Simple Programming Language, Midwest Instruction and
Computing Symposium, April 08 – 09, 2005, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire.
Sinapova, L. Creative Problem Solving, Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium,
April 16 – 17, 2004, University of Minnesota at Morris.
Refereed Journals
Dimitrova, L., R. Pavlov, K. Simov, L. Sinapova. Bulgarian MULTEXT-East Corpus –
Structure and Content. Cybernetics and Information Technologies Vol. 5, No 1, Sofia
2005, pp. 67-73, BAS, Marin Drinov Publ.
Sinapova L. and D. Dochev. Analyzing Bulgarian and English Collocations. Problems of
Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics, 48, 1999, Academic Press, Sofia. 80-91.
Sinapova, L. and D. Dochev. Computational elicitation of structural relations in bilingual
texts. Problems of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics 45, 1996, Academic Press,
Sofia. 37-45.
Markov, Z. and L. Sinapova. A framework for network modeling. Computers and
Artificial Intelligence, Vol.13, 1994. No.6, Slovak Academy Press, Bratislava. 577-593
Sinapova, L. An algorithm for spreading-activation based parsing. Problems of
Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics 40, 1993, Academic Press, Sofia. 39-48.
Sinapova, L. A rule-based approach to distributed parsing. Problems of Engineering
Cybernetics and Robotics 39, 1993, Academic Press, Sofia. 33-40.
Sinapova L. Some problems of man-machine dialogue in expert systems. V. Sgurev, V.
Vasilev and S. Drangajov (Eds), Methods and Tools of Cybernetic systems, Academic
Press, Sofia, 1992. 70-76. (in Bulgarian)
Sgurev, V., N. Milev, I. Mustakerov, D. Dochev and L. Sinapova. Automated
microprocessor system ERMA. Optimization, Decision Making and Microprocessor
Systems, Academic Press, Sofia, 1985. 189-193. (in Russian)
International Conferences
Sinapova, L. and Z. Markov. Grammar representation and parsing in a data-driven logic
programming environment. B. du Boulay and V. Sgurev (Eds), Artificial Intelligence V:
Methodology, Systems, Applications (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence AIMSA'92), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1992. 151-160.
Markov, Z., L. Sinapova, and Ch. Dichev. Default reasoning in a network environment.
Proceedings of ECAI’90, August 6-10, 1990, Stockholm, Sweden. 431-436.
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Markov, Z., Ch. Dichev, and L. Sinapova. The Net-Clause Language - a tool for
describing network models. Proceedings of the Eighth Canadian Conference on AI, May
23-25, 1990, Ottawa, Canada. 33-39.
Sinapova, L. A network parsing scheme. Ph. Jorrand and V. Sgurev (Eds), Artificial
Intelligence IV: Methodology, Systems, Applications (Proceedings of the Fourth
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence AIMSA'90), North-Holland,
Amsterdam, 1990. 383-392.
Popchev, I. P., N. Zlatareva, and L. Sinapova. EDDY: An expert system in
dysmorphology based on truth-maintenance. Proceedings of the 11th Annual
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,
Nov.1989, Seattle USA, Vol.X. 1141-1142.
Sinapova, L. Unification-based semantic processing. Proceedings of the 18th Spring
conference of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians, April 6-10, 1989, Albena,
Bulgaria. 460-463. (in Bulgarian)
Sinapova, L. Domain and linguistic knowledge representation based on feature-value
structures. T. O'Shea and V. Sgurev (Eds) Artificial Intelligence III: Methodology,
Systems, Applications (Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence AIMSA'88), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988. 291-297.
Baruch I., D. Dochev, Z. Markov, G. Agre, and L. Sinapova. Microcomputer control
system for ball mill grinding. Preprints of
International Conference
"INFORMATICA'88", February 15-18, 1988, La Habana, Cuba.
Sinapova, L. and G. Agre. An approach to building a linguistic processor for Bulgarian
texts. Ph. Jorrand and V. Sgurev (Eds), Artificial Intelligence II: Methodology, Systems,
Applications (Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence AIMSA'86), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1987. 341-349.
Sinapova, L. Automatic syntactic analysis for Bulgarian language. Proceedings of the
First East-European Seminar "Problems and Applications of Artificial Intelligence",
September 21-25, 1987, Varna, Bulgaria. 169-173. (in Russian)
National and Regional Conferences
Sinapova, L., D. Dochev, and R. Shkodrova. Using patterns in machine translation.
Proceedings of the National Conference “Automation and Informatics’95”, Sofia. 8891. (in Bulgarian).
Zlatareva, N., L. Sinapova, I. Popchev, S. Stephanov, S. Boyadjiev, E. Simeonov, and T.
Jellezova. An Expert system in dysmorphology. Summaries of the First National
Conference "Medical Cybernetics'89" October 15-18, 1989, Golden Sands, Varna,
Bulgaria, p.58 (in Bulgarian)
Baruch, I., D. Dochev, E. Georgiev, Z. Markov, G. Agre, L. Sinapova, K. Lubenov, P.
Boneva, and D. Belchev. Two-layer system for automation control on a personal
computer with programmable controller. Proceedings of the Second National Conference
on Personal Computers PERSCOMP'87, April 21-24, 1987, Sofia, Bulgaria. 361-367. (in
Bulgarian)
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Sgurev, V., D. Dochev, I. Baruch, G. Agre, Z. Markov, and L. Sinapova. Using personal
computer IMKO-2 as an operator monitoring station. Proceedings of the First National
Conference on Personal Computers PERSCOMP'85, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1985, v. 2. 57-64.
Baruch I., D. Dochev, G. Agre, Z. Markov, and L. Sinapova. Specialized software for
personal computer IMKO-2. Summaries of the International Symposium "Automation of
Scientific Instrument-Building", October 1-5, 1985, Varna, Bulgaria, v.3. (in Bulgarian)
Dochev, D., G. Agre, and L. Sinapova. Automation of load-unload actions using
industrial robots. Summaries of the Fourth Summer School "Automation'83", Primorsko,
Bulgaria, 1983. (in Bulgarian)
Technical Reports
Sinapova, L. and D. Dochev. Extracting Collocations from Parallel Texts. A Case Study
of an aligned English - Bulgarian text: "1984" by G. Orwell.IIT Working Papers IIT/WP34, 1998.
Ludmila Dimitrova, Lydia Sinapova, Vladimir Petkevic, Jana Klimová, Vera
Schmiedtová, Heiki-Jan Kaalep, Viire Villandi, Heili Orav, Leho Paldre, Urve Talvik,
Kadri Muischnek, Csaba Oravecz, Laszlo Tihanyi, Stefan Bruda, Calin Diaconu, Lidia
Diaconu, Dan Tufis, Tomaž Erjavec, Miro Romih, and Olga Vukovic. Sample corpus
collection and preparation. MULTEXT-East Final Report D2.1F, Institute Jožef Stefan,
Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 1997.
Sinapova, L. and D. Dochev. Grammar rules for Bulgarian noun phrases  some
practical issues. IIT Working Papers, IIT/WP34, 1997.
Invited Talks
Sinapova, L. An NCL-based approach to natural language parsing. Second FrancoBulgarian Workshop on Logic Programming and Automated Inferencing, April 9-14,
1990, Smolian, Bulgaria.
Sinapova, L. Domain and linguistic knowledge representation for natural language
interface implemented in CSY-Prolog. First Franco-Bulgarian Workshop on Logic
Programming and Automated Inferencing, November 21-25, 1988, Grenoble, France.
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