SITTI team

 

 

Rūta Petrauskaitė is the SITTI director, habilitated doctor, professor. In 2004-2010 was the head of CCL. Research interests: corpus linguistics, semantics, pragmatics. E-mail: ruta.petrauskaite AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

 

 

Diana Česnauskaitė is the SITTI administrator. E-mail: diana.cesnauskaite AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

 

Darius Amilevičius is a SITTI principal researcher. Research interests: human language technologies, deep and machine learning, neural language modelling, artificial intelligence technologies. Certificates: IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate, Certified Data Steward (cert. No.: 512486). E-mail: darius.amilevicius AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

Tomas Berkmanas is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), currently serves as the Dean of Faculty of Law, a valued member of SITTI projects . From 2011 until 2015 he served as the Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Law. From 2015 until 2020 he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Law. Tomas Berkmanas is the founder and Senior Editor of the Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, Head of the VMU Ethics Commission, participant of various research and infrastructural projects, expert of the Lithuanian Research Council, author of numerous articles and conference presentations.. E-mail: tomas.berkmanas AT vdu.lt.

 

 

 


 

 

Agnė Bielinskienė is a SITTI senior researcher. In 2010 (VMU, Kaunas) defended the doctoral dissertation Semantics, pragmatics and peculiarities of usage of coordination. Research interests: corpus linguistics, semantics, terminology, syntax, multi word units. E-mail: agne.bielinskiene AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

Ineta Dabašinskienė is a professor of the Department of Lithuanian Language and currently serves as the Rector of Vytautas Magnus University. She actively participates in national, EU and other international scientific and educational projects, is the coordinator and partner of many of them, and has repeatedly won international recognition for the quality, relevance and dissemination of the implemented projects. Research interests include psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, multilingualism and language policy, children’s language acquisition, bilingual and multilingual education, and others. E-mail: ineta.dabasinskiene AT vdu.lt.

 

 


 

 

 

Virginijus Dadurkevičius is a SITTI data steward. Research interests: machine translation, lexicography, automatic morphological analysis, data curation and analysis. E-mail: virginijus.dadurkevičius AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė is a SITTI principal researcher. In 2010 (VMU, Kaunas) defended the doctoral dissertation Acquisition of Lithuanian adjective: lexical and morphosyntactic features. Research interests: corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, natural morphology, children’s language and language aimed to children, mastering and learning language, language impairments. E-mail: laura.kamandulyte-merfeldiene AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

Julija Kiršienė is a Professor in the Department of Private Law at Vytautas Magnus University. With more than 20 years of experience in diverse legal and academic roles — including two terms as Dean of Faculty and two terms as Vice-Rector for Research, as well as professional practice as an attorney and notary public — Professor Kiršienė has made substantial contributions to both legal scholarship and higher education. She is the author or co-author of over 70 books and scientific articles. Her research interests encompass contract law, tort law, legal ethics and professionalism, and human rights. E-mail: julija.kirsiene AT vdu.lt.

 

 


 

 

Jolanta Kovalevskaitė is a SITTI senior researcher. In 2012 (VMU, Kaunas)  defended the doctoral dissertation Multi-word Lexemes in the Lithuanian language. Research interests: corpus linguistics (monolingual and parallel corpora), multi-word units, lexicography, terminology. E-mail: jolanta.kovalevskaite AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

 

Eglė Krivickaitė-Leišienė is a SITTI researcher. In 2016 (VMU, Kaunas) defended the doctoral dissertation Phonotactics Development of Children’s Language. Research interests: psycholinguistics, children language, native language learning, specific language disorders (SLI), bilingualism/multilingualism, sociolinguistics. E-mail: egle.krivickaite-leisiene AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

 

Saulė Milčiuvienė is a SITTI principal researcher, and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Vytautas Magnus University. Her main research interests are in energy law and legal issues related to digitalization. E-mail: saule.milciuviwnw AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

 

 

Mindaugas Petkevičius is a SITTI programmer. Research interests: NLP, neural networks. E-mail: mindaugas.petkevicius AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

 

 

Ieva Prameneckienė is a SITTI researcher. Research interests: corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, children’s language and language aimed to children, mastering and learning language, bilinguality/multilinguality. E-mail: ieva.prameneckiene ETA vdu.lt

 

 


Gailius Raškinis is a SITTI principal researcher, professor. In 2000 (VMU, Kaunas)  defended the doctoral dissertation Transcription of Lithuanian Folk Songs by Series of Musical Symbols. Research interests: speech recognition methods, computational and corpus linguistics. E-mail: gailius.raskinis AT vdu.lt


 

 

Erika Rimkutė is a SITTI senior researcher. In 2006 (VMU, Kaunas)  defended the doctoral dissertation Morphological Disambiguation of the Lithuanian Language Corpus. Research interests: corpus and computational linguistics,  automatic morphological analysis, morphological disambiguation, automatic syntax analysis, morphemics, multi-word units. E-mail: erika.rimkute AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

 

Andrius Utka is a SITTI senior researcher. In 2004 (VMU, Kaunas) defended the doctoral dissertation Statistical Identification of Text Functions. In 2010-2022 was the head of CCL. Research interests: statistical text analysis, computer-assisted translation tools, automatic summarisation, terminology extraction, the language of disinformation etc. E-mail: andrius.utka AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


 

 

Jurgita Vaičenonienė is a SITTI researcher, CLARIN-LT national coordinator. In 2011 (VMU, Kaunas) defended doctoral dissertation Lithuanian literature in English: a corpus-based approach to the translation of author-specific neologisms. Research interests: translation studies, corpus linguistics. E-mail: jurgita.vaicenoniene AT vdu.lt

 

 

 


Former CCL team members: Inga Naruševičiūtė (worked in 1993–1995); Aušra Daknevičienė (1995–1997); Dalia Zabielaitė (1996–1997); Ineta Savickienė (1997–1999); Jurgita Mikelionienė (1995–2005); Arimantas Juvencijus Raškinis (2000–2009); Vidas Daudaravičius (2001–2008); Vaidas Repečka (2005–2008);  Asta Kazlauskienė (2006–2010); Karolis Monkus (2008–2012); Gintarė Grigonytė (2004–2012); Irena Markievicz (2012–2013); Sigita Dereškevičiūtė (2010–2015); Vytautas Zinkevičius (up to 2016); Francesco Zamblera (2013-2016); Eugenijus Raila (2015-2016); Lukas Nickus (2015-2016); Loic Boizou (2012-2022).