Iryna Gurevych
Iryna Gurevych is a Soviet and German computer scientist. She is Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt and Director of Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab.Life
Gurevych received her diploma in English and German Linguistics from the Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University in 1998. In 2001, she received her Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from University of Duisburg-Essen.
Since 2014, she is Co-Director of the Centre for the Digital Foundation of Research in the Humanities, Social, and Educational Sciences, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Her 2008 article about extraction of lexical semantics from Wikipedia and Wiktionary have sparked the interest to study the later more thoroughly. In 2016, regarding fake news she said that it will be difficult to validate the information content for truth or falsehood. She is an author of Linked Lexical Knowledge Bases: Foundations and Applications.Awards
