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Teodora Vuković

 
 
 
Postdoctoral Researcher
 
Office:     AND-4.50
Andreasstrasse 15
8050 Zürich
Campus Oerlikon

Teodora is a Principal Investigator in the VIAN-DH project and the CAPIRE project, focusing on multimodal analysis of human interaction based on videos. She is developing automatic tools and software to process hand gestures, facial expressions and speech. Along with the tools, Teodora is devising methodology for multimodal corpora that can integrate various communicational modalities in a systematic way, as well as methods for querying and analyzing such corpora. She also collaborates in the CineMinds project, integrating a large collection of audio and video interviews with expert film-makers into a large multimodal knowledge base.

Publications

Johannes Graën, Jonathan Schaber, Daniel McDonald, Igor Mustač, Nikolina Rajović, Gerold Schneider, Jeremy Zehr, Noah Bubenhofer and Teodora Vuković (2024). The LiRI Corpus Platform CLARIN2023: Selected papers. Leuven: CLARIN.

Maja Miličević Petrović, Teodora Vuković, Mirjana Mirić, Daria V. Konior, Anastasia Escher (2023). Toward Sociolinguistic Corpora of Torlak. Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, Volume 79, Issue 1. p. 123 - 151.

Teodora Vuković, Mirjana Mirić, Anastasia Escher, Svetlana Ćirković, Maja Miličević Petrović, Andrey N. Sobolev, Barbara Sonnenhauser (2023). Under the Magnifying Glass: Dimensions of Variation in the Contemporary Timok Variety. Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, Volume 79, Issue 1. p. 153 - 194.

Teodora Vuković, Anastasia Escher, Barbara Sonnenhauser (2022). Degrees of non-standardness: Feature-based analysis of variation in a Torlak dialect corpusInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Volume 27, Issue 2, Jun 2022, p. 220 - 247.

Teodora Vuković (2021). Representing variation in a spoken corpus of an endangered dialect: the case of Torlak. Language Resources and Variation. Springer Nature. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-020-09522-4

Philipp Wasserscheidt, Marija Mandić, Nadine Vollstädt, Ana Jovanović, Ivana Tanasijević, Teodora Vuković, Ivana Vučina Simović, Uliana Yazhinova, Anđelka Zečević (2020). Corpus-based analysis of spoken narratives. Introducing a corpus and a search toolGovor, Vol. 37, No. 2. Zagreb: Hrvatsko filološko društvo. 149-178.

Anastasia Makarova, Daria V. Konior, Teodora Vuković, Andrej N. Sobolev, Olivier Winistörfer (2020). Automatic language profiling of a dialect speaker: the case of the Timok variety spoken in the village of Berč􏲃inovac (Eastern Serbia) (in Russian). In: Acta Linguistica Petropolitana Vol. 16.2. pp. 160-180. DOI 10.30842/alp2306573716207

Teodora Vuković, Nora Muheim, Olivier Winistörfer, Ivan Simko, Anastasia Makarova, Sanja Bradjan (2019).Corpora and Processing Tools for Non-Standard Contemporary and Diachronic Balkan Slavic. In: Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop (RANLPStud 2019) associated with RANLP 2019. Varna, Bulgaria. p. 62-68.

Teodora Vuković, Tanja Samardžić (2018). Prostorna raspodela frekvencije post-pozitivnog člana u timočkom govoru (Areal distribution of the freqiency of the post-posed article in Timok vernacular). In Svetlana Cirkovic (Ed.). Timok. folkloristička i lingvistička terenska istraživanja 2015 - 2017. Knjaževac: Narodna biblioteka Njegoš. Beograd: Udruženje Folklorista Srbije. p. 181-199.

Teodora Vuković, Maja Miličević (2017). Creation аnd some Ideas for Classroom Use of an Electronic Corpus оf тhe Dialect оf Bunjevci. in J. Filipović and J. Vučo ( Eds.), Minority Languages in Education and Language Learning: Challenges and New Perspectives. Belgrade: Faculty of Philology.  

Biljana Sikimić, Teodora Vuković (2017). Digitalna zaštita bunjevačkih govora. in Drago Njegovan (Ed.). Kultura i identitet Bunjevaca. Novi Sad: Muzej Vojvodine. p. 473–489.

Teodora Vuković (2015). Izrada modela dijalekatskog korpusa bunjevačkog govora. MA thesis. Belgrade: Faculty of Philology. 

Previous projects

July 2018 – August 2020

TraCeBa - a three-year project (July 2018 – July 2021) within the ERA.Net RUS Plus sub-programme of the FP7/Horizon 2020 programme.

The project explored converging and diverging tendencies in linguistic and cultural practices in the Central Balkans. The focus was on the Torlak region, which had been a unified linguistic and cultural unit until 1878, but which since the end of the 19th century has been divided by the Serbian-Bulgarian political boundary.

Specifically, the project investigated the role of boundaries – geographical, political, perceptual – on the transformation of linguistic and cultural traditions and their perception by the individual subjects. The investigation had an empirical basis, combining linguistic methods with language technology.

TraCeBa website

September 2015 – August 2017

Protecting the immaterial heritage of the Torlak vernacular (at The Institute for Balkan Studies of Serbian Academy for Sciences and Arts, Museum of Ethnography in Belgrade)

The project has the goal of protecting and preserving the endangered Torlak vernacular by collecting linguistic samples of it in audio and video format and presenting them through an web page with various search options. I am one of the researchers in the field, and a corpus linguistics specialist in charge of creating an Internet archive of the Torlak vernacular. (Project leader: Biljana Sikimić)
Website of the project: Timočki govori

July 2015 – December 2016

Constructing Narratives (The Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA and The Institute for Slavic Studies of The Humboldt University in Berlin)

The goal of the project is the creation of a corpus of oral narratives in the light of Constructive grammar theory. My role is to provide transcription training in EXMARaLDA, and supervise the process of transcription. I am also involved in the annotation process and the creation of the corpus. (Project leaders: Christian VossMarija MandicPhilipp Wasserscheidt)

May 2015 – Present

Webdict – Dictionary of the Shokac dialect (The Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA)

Editor and co-author of an online dictionary of the Shokac dialect (Supervisor: Biljana SikimićWebpage

2012 - Present Webdict – Dictionary of the Bunjevac dialect (The Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA)
A small experimental self-managed project with the goal of creating a dictionary of the authentic use of the Bunjevac dialect Webpage

Education

2016 - 2022

Univeristy of Zurich, Slavisches Seminar

Doctorate
Research topic: Corpus-based Study of Post-positive Articles in Torlak Mentors: Barbara Sonnenhauser and Hanne Eckhoff
(Until August 2019, worked at Language and Space, UZH)

2013 – 2015

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology

MA in Corpus Linguistics
Thesis: Creating a Model for a Dialectological Corpus of the Bunjevac Dialect Mentor: Maja Miličević

2009 – 2013

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology

BA in General Linguistics and Spanish Language