Welcome to my website!
Welcome to my website!
I am a cognitive-science linguist with a strong background in mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence. 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.
My company websites are: https://www.manova-ai.com and https://gaussaiglobal.com.
Contact
Personal & academic inquiries: manova.stela@gmail.com
Gauss:AI Global: manova@gaussaiglobal.com
MANOVA AI: office@manova-ai.com
My research interests include:
Language and cognition
Theoretical linguistics / (Large) Language models / NLP / AI
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.
October 2026
Serendipity: LLMs are made from language, but they are not made of language! is now on LingBuzz.
LANGUAGE INTELLIGENCE OR IMPROVING AI FOR CONSUMERS (Conference on Language Intelligence, Vienna, Austrian Parliament, 17–19 November 2026)
September 2026
A reply to TERENCE TAO’S open letter “A SEVERE MISALIGNMENT OF AI IN MATHEMATICS”
July 2026
4 new articles in the series The AI Perspective on Linguistic Theory, now available on LingBuzz and ResearchGate.
Invitation to serve as guest editor of a special issue of Languages on affixation in the world’s languages.
We are sorry to announce that, due to unforeseen circumstances, LAMA-AI 2026 has been postponed.
The new dates and a revised Call for Papers will be announced in due course.
June 2026
I am happy to announce the First International Online Forum on Language, Mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence (LAMA-AI), 21-22.11.2026.
May 2026
Workshop Series Linguistics Meets ChatGPT: From Prompt to Theory: Registration for Block 4 (June 22-23, 2026) is open until June 21. Details here.
Registration for Block 3 (May 21-22, 2026) is open until May 20. Details here.
April 2026
Block 2 workshops will take place on April 27-28, 2026; registration link.
Guest lecture AI and Archaeolinguistics at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (Jena and online), 15th April at 11:00-12:00; details, including registration link here.
Мarch 2026
Linguistics Meets ChatGPT: From Prompt to Theory — Thank you to all participants in Block 1 for making the workshops a success.
Just published: Manova, S. (2026). ChatGPT and linguistic theory, with a focus on morphology. Chapter 6 in José-Luis Mendívil-Giró (ed.), Artificial Knowledge of Language. A Linguists’ Perspective on its Nature, Origins and Use, 111-151. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.
Gauss:AI Global is now a subsidiary of MANOVA AI.