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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. (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.
Manova, S. (2026). 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.
Gauss:AI Global is now a subsidiary of MANOVA AI.