{"id":9781,"date":"2020-08-01T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.cas.bg\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=9781"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:26:30","slug":"alexander-popov","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/profile\/alexander-popov\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Popov"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Alexander Popov is a computational linguist who also works in the broad field of science fiction studies. He obtained his PhD in Informatics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, with a dissertation on the topic of lexical modeling in the context of artificial intelligence and natural language processing. He has worked on projects in the fields of machine translation, automatic information extraction, knowledge representation and digital reading. He studies literary texts mainly from the theoretical and methodological lenses of utopian studies, ecocriticism and posthumanism, and is also particularly interested in the language of science fiction \u2013 from a cognitive and literary-theoretic point of view. Alexander Popov is a long-time editor and author at &#8220;ShadowDance&#8221; \u2013 the oldest media outlet in Bulgaria dedicated to the speculative arts. He teaches science fiction at Sofia University &#8220;St. Kliment Ohridski.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Selected publications:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Popov, Alexander and Konstantin Georgiev. \u201cCrises of Water and the New Maps to Utopia.\u201d Paradoxa 31, 2020 (forthcoming).<\/li>\n<li>Popov, Alexander. &#8220;Rewriting Myth and Genre Boundaries: Narrative Modalities in The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan.&#8221; Fantastika Journal 4(1), 114-128, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Popov, Alexander. \u201cThe Utopian Hyperobject: Revolutionary Topologies in Science Fiction.\u201d New Forms of Space and Spatiality in Science Fiction, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1-15, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Popov, Alexander, and Jennifer Sikos. \u201cGraph Embeddings for Frame Identification.\u201d Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), 940-949, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Popov, Alexander, Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova. \u201cKnow Your Graph. State-of-the-Art Knowledge-Based WSD.\u201d Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), 950-959, 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Popov is a computational linguist who also works in the broad field of science fiction studies. He obtained his PhD in Informatics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9782,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"country":[79],"pl-categs":[5],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18673,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9781\/revisions\/18673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"pl-categs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pl-categs?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}