Welcome to my website!
Workshop Series "Linguistics Meets ChatGPT: From Prompt to Theory", registration for Block 1 is now open!
Welcome to my website!
I am a cognitive-science linguist with a strong background in mathematics. I am the CEO of MANOVA AI and the Principal Investigator (PI) of Gauss:AI Global.
My academic and scientific activities have taken place across a wide international landscape, including:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, and USA.
This Google Site serves as my personal homepage: https://www.stelamanova.com.
It also functions as an alternative access point to my University of Vienna homepage: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/stela.manova.
Contact
Personal & academic inquiries: manova.stela@gmail.com
Gauss:AI Global: manova@gaussaiglobal.com
MANOVA AI: contact@manova-ai.com
My research interests include:
Language and cognition
Theoretical linguistics / (Large) Language models / NLP
Experimental linguistics / Psycholinguistics / (Foreign) language learning
Computational linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Statistics
Algorithms and data structures
Complexity measuring of linguistic analyses
Programming languages (Java, Python, C++, C, JavaScript, HTML, R, among others)
A recent picture of me in About me / Bio.
#1 in all categories in the linguistic archive LingBuzz!
Posted on May 1, #1 since May 21, last checked June 6, 2025.
December 2025
Registration for Block 1 of the Workshop Series Linguistics Meets ChatGPT is now open (early birds through December 31, 2025). Five competitive stipends for (under)graduate students, apply by January 12, 2026, details here, see the section Stipends.
November 2025
Call for participation and 5-min talks in Workshop 1 and Workshop 2 of the Series Linguistics Meets ChatGPT.
October 2025
The LingTransformer of Gauss:AI Global is happy to announce the Workshop Series Linguistics Meets ChatGPT: From Prompt to theory.
September 2025
A surprise on Academia.edu! 14 of my papers have podcast summaries! It was an interesting experience to listen to the podcasts--my papers but from an alternative perspective, somehow.
August 2025
MANOVA AI has started operations,
https://www.manova-ai.com. Gauss:AI is now a subsidiary of MANOVA AI.
20 Closing suffixes. Word-Formation – Special Patterns and Restrictions, edited by Peter O. Müller, Susan Olsen and Franz Rainer, De Gruyter Mouton, 2025, pp. 385-403. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111420554-020