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Workshop Series "Linguistics Meets ChatGPT": Registration is now open for all four WS blocks.
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.
February 2026
Workshop Series Linguistics Meets ChatGPT: Registration is now open for all four WS blocks. Block 1 takes place on March 23-24.
Currently in production: Manova, S. ChatGPT and linguistic theory, with a focus on morphology. In José-Luis Mendívil-Giró (ed.), Artificial Knowledge of Language. A Linguists’ Perspective on its Nature, Origins and Use. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.
The iconicity of affix order is out. Chapter 27 in Olga Fischer, Kimi Akita & Pamela Perniss (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language. New York: Oxford University Press.
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.
August 2025
MANOVA AI has started operations,
https://www.manova-ai.com. Gauss:AI is now a subsidiary of MANOVA AI.